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...would give their citizens a visual idea of the bloody horror of actual combat and thus build up a mass repugnance to fighting. That the U. S., for all its diplomatic efforts towards peace, is no exception to this fundamental military rule was revealed last week when George Palmer Putnam, Manhattan publisher, tried unsuccessfully to get the War Department's permission to print some of its Signal Corps photographs other than those glorifying...
...pacifist himself, Publisher Putnam served as a lieutenant of field artillery during the War. He helped the American Legion start its weekly in 1919. Lately he has been collecting for publication in book form pictures of the War's gory realities. Many of them came from private collections. Some were bootlegged out of Government archives. All are authentic, horrible. Last week Mr. Putnam went to Washington where he requested Major General Irving Joseph Carr, chief of the Army's Signal Corps, to open its files to his publishing venture. General Carr refused to release a single "horrible" photograph. His reason...
Undeterred by the War Department's attitude, Mr. Putnam returned to New York, prepared to issue his volume of War photographs next week.* Among its 89 grisly pictures is a sprinkling of ironic War verse. Soldiers are shown in all the contorted agonies of death. War's backwash is represented by deserter executions, famine victims, mutilations, cripples. Only "atrocity pictures" are excluded...
Aware of how public morbidity has been exploited by the publishers of such gang-war books as X Marks the Spot, Publisher Putnam is shrewd enough to attempt to elevate the moral tone of his volume by making it a "document against war." He hopes that peace societies will buy and distribute The Horror of It on the theory that war is the best propaganda against war. To add to the book's respectability, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rockefeller pastor, and Carrie Chapman Catt were enlisted to write forewords on the peace theme. Dr. Fosdick...
...completed: though it is conveniently near the Yard, its surroundings are noisy and comparatively unattractive. Only one of its dormitories is modern, and the rooms incline to be dingy. Long, long before its six neighbors put in their mushroom-like appearance Adams House was there. Colonial Apthorp sheltered General Putnam; the captured Burgoyne lived in it when it were only a few of the forty coats of paint which the interior decorators removed in 1930. Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall rose when thick walls and Germanic gloom were the order of the day in architecture. To these has been added...