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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Merrimac is refuted even by Federal historians themselves. Without vouching for the records (which I shall be glad to do for you or for Mr. Lawson), it seems sufficient to the purposes of this brief letter to quote Ericsson himself. He did not consider that the Monitor won the fight, and said in a letter written...
...Lawson's contention is sound, one wonders why the Monitor did not capture the Merrimac, and why the Monitor herself fled to shoal water and to the protection of Fortress Monroe when the Merrimac twice came down the river and offered fight...
...news value in colonial and military inefficiency. The reason for the great popular interest in the Riffian campaign lies rather in the picturesque character of the conflict, where a race endowed with little more than good rifles and the ability to stand up for themselves even in an unfair fight taught the French and Spanish armies that late sad experience has not exhausted the combinations possible in war. The Riffian rebellion began as an unimportant matter of suppressing a few inconvenient barbarians; it developed into a conflict where airplanes and modern discipline were hard put to it to hold their...
...peace. Such military and naval establishments were the expressions of the fears and conflicts of the European nations and played a large part in bringing on the Great War. It is because our preparedness program is developing features dangerously skin to the militarism we enlisted to fight in 1917 that this pamphlet is sent forth. Today to an extent that most of us have never dreamed of, military training is being forced upon our young men in high school and college. Other large numbers, encouraged by the War Department, are voluntarily undertaking military training. That is to say, in this...
These are but speculations. If they are right, the New York drys will be left to their own resources to fight the battles so clearly looming. The methods of the conflict will be of interest as are the methods of all political struggles. The results will, however, be fraught with greater significance. It is the guess of many that Prohibition will force its way into party strie in 1928 1926 in New York will help to answer the question...