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...McKinley, Sherman...
When Wendell Willkie ran across President McKinley's Buffalo statement that "isolation is no longer possible" (TIME, Feb. 22), he might have proceeded a trifle further before giving Mr. McKinley the phony buildup as an internationally minded statesman...
...McKinley's deeds and words as a congressman reveal a complete lack of interest in international affairs and total ignorance concerning them. As President he relied for such knowledge upon John Sherman, and God (who appeared to McKinley in a dream and told him to keep the Philippines...
...from one of my own speeches," said Wendell Willkie last week, reading this little homily at a Republican dinner in his home State of Indiana. He was not; he had just done a little historical sleuthing. The quotation was 41 years old, spoken by none other than President William McKinley, high priest of high tariffs, day before he was shot at Buffalo...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, 85, the Spanish-American War Lieutenant who delivered the famed "message to Garcia"; in the Army's Letterman Hospital in San Francisco. He was sent by President McKinley at war's outbreak to learn from Cuban insurgent General Calixto Garcia the strength of Garcia's forces. He carried his instructions in his head, but uplifter Elbert Hubbard's editorial, A Message to Garcia, put a letter in his hand, later put money in Hubbard's pocket, ultimately sold more than 40,000,000 copies. Rowan's reward...