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...JOSEPHUS AND THE EMPEROR-Lion Feuchtwanger-Viking...
...Totals vary, including that of Our Navy at War by Josephus Daniels, which reports 100 vessels of all nationalities sunk in U.S. waters...
...famed Tarheel Editor Josephus Daniels last week staged a spry comeback on his lively, incomplete, partisan, aggressive, successful Raleigh News & Observer. After a nine-year absence (as Ambassador to Mexico) shrewd old "Uncle Joe" Daniels had "enlisted for the war" to replace his son Jonathan, who went to OCD in Washington...
Last week Editor Daniels added a commentary on his Navy days: "Even when I was 'absent without leave' from the sanctum during the eight years as Secretary of the Navy in the Woodrow Wilson administration,'' chuckled old Josephus, "I thought of myself as managing editor of the Navy rather than as a Cabinet official...
...significance of the pact was slower being digested. In Washington, enthusiasts compared it to the Articles of Confederation that had held the 13 States together until the Constitutional Convention. Advocates of Union Now thought it did not go far enough, wanted a union of peoples, rather than of governments. Josephus Daniels recalled his last talk with Woodrow Wilson, when Wilson had said: "The things we have fought for are sure to prevail . . . [and] may come in a better way than we proposed." Advocates of a revived, strengthened League of Nations hoped the United Nations would prove the better...