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...American Defense Society, Inc. immediately reprinted Lyle's piece as a pamphlet, distributed 50,000 copies. The London Daily Mail published it in Britain, sent thousands of copies to soldiers in the trenches. Then came Armistice, and in the delirium of that hour The War of 1038 was forgotten...
Peace. Wrote Author Lyle, before the Armistice: "Back in 1918 peace as an actual fact astounded the world hardly less than the outbreak of the war. . . . On the battlefield we were winning. . . . It was the moment that all German effort during three years had played for ...Germany kept none of her colonies. . . . In the matter of armament she proved as tractable, and for as good a reason. . . . Disarmed, she had naught to fear from democracies disarmed also...
...Author Lyle foresaw "that Germany would try to become self-sufficient in order to head off the effects of a blockade in World War II. "Close scientific tab was kept on every garbage pail. War substitutes . . . were continued. . . ." Other Lyle predictions: ^ German mastery of the art of propaganda...
...years, wrote Prophet Lyle, "these things went on with scarcely a ripple on the serene surface of world affairs. . . . Then ... in cold blood the German Government set about manufacturing provocation for the attack. . . . Suddenly the world was asked to believe that we were war-mad aggressors wantonly attacking an unprepared and peace-loving Fatherland. . . . Then-the German ultimatum...
Last week, in a big old house in San Diego, white-haired Eugene Lyle, now 66, sat listening to radio reports of the war he had awaited since 1918. Asked who will be Europe's master in 1960, Prophet Lyle saw too many uncertainties ahead. Of one thing only was he positive: "The combatants will still be recovering from the exhaustion, economic and spiritual...