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...friendly British visitors. Against any such elimination Congressman Bloom raised his voice in vehement protest. He wanted history, including "The World's Turned Upside Down," repeated as it occurred 150 years ago. The following long-range colloquy took place between him and Virginia's Congressman Schuyler Otis Bland, secretary of the Yorktown celebration...
...Bland: We are trying to depict something deeper and greater than the mere surrender of men in a single battle. We want to emphasize a truth of ideals rather than to glorify a war victory...
...Bland: An exact reproduction of the surrender would involve the difficult task of training several thousand regular Army men in close formation fighting...
Citizenship Case. Even more newsworthy was Chief Justice Hughes's dissenting opinion this week in a 5-to-4 decision denying citizenship to Rev. Douglas Macintosh, a Canadian, a War chaplain, now professor of theology at Yale, and Marie Averill Bland, a Canadian War nurse with the U. S. Army, because they refused to bear arms for the U. S. in what they considered an unjustifiable...
...Miss Bland and Dr. MacIntosh made only those reservations which any citizen feels he has a right to make, and which he believes he does make, in time of war. With the present highly organized facilities for propaganda, everyone may rest assured that his cause will be the moral, the just, and the Christian one. It is curious that in applying for citizenship rights, one does not have to offer oath that one will make no act which may lead the country into war, that one will make every effort to contribute to peace in the society of nations. There...