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...have just finished reading two articles in the May issue of Scribner's Magazine, "Why America Will Go to War" and "How to Keep Out of the Next War," by Messrs Grattan and Stoddard. The amazing response and reaction to your article concerning the munition manufacturers [TIME, March 5] prompts me to ask if it would be possible for you to give publicity to these two splendid articles. I believe you would be doing this nation a great service and perhaps be instrumental in keeping these United States out of the next conflagration which seems inevitable, if you could...
Author C. Hartley Grattan predicts a repetition of the events of 1914, with the U S. caught between blockading and blockaded powers in the Atlantic. In tl Pacific Japan will use force to stop tl flow of U. S. supplies to Soviet Russia via China. Author Lothrop Stoddard's anti-War prescription: float no foreign bonds of combatants in the U. S.; trade with combatants for cash or short-term credits; export no arms or munitions. - ED. Haul Sirs...
...first article, of the gloomy point of view, is written by Hartley Grattan, who appears to be an able student of modern war and world affairs. The second, "How America Can Keep Out of the Next War," is written by Lothrop Stoddard, in a manner to prove that Mr. Stoddard was probably living on the northern shore of Baffin Land, or perhaps inside the Mammoth Caverns during the last war. Mr. Stoddard desires with a great earnestness to keep out of the next war, unless "a vital natural interest" (i.e. not that of keeping out of war) is involved...
While Mr. Stoddard was basking in the memories of 1812, in sunny Raratonga during the years 1914-1917, Mr. Grattan was learning that the problems of Europe are not so much political as they are economic, however the headlines describe them. And to that knowledge he has added that the European situation in 1934 shows a fantastic similarity with that of 1914, with a complete renaissance of what Mr. Stoddard calls "Europe's ancient feuds." The only difference are some new components in the Balkan alliances and a strong and enigmatical Italy. He cannily observed the Orient, too, including America...
...through the banks. Some businessmen complained that loans were hard to get, because they must be approved by bank officers in the East. Bankers denied this and representatives of several chief industries declared themselves satisfied with bank accommodations offered. Decorum was preserved until an Irish-Canadian barrister, Gerald Grattan McGeer, K.C.. representing the Vancouver Trades & Labor Council, got the floor. For three and one-half hours he harangued the Commission, lambasted Canadian banking as a "credit racket'' which was strangling commercial life. He told the Commission that it was "trying to patch up an oxcart instead...