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...Wesleyan College Conference on U. S. Foreign Policy, noisy, beak-nosed Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, exploded with a characteristic bit of Butlerese: "If there is another war I intend to make James Roosevelt go to the front line trenches. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Marines, and if his father starts up this war business I am going to see that he does. I am not afraid! Let them shoot me! I'm all through. Let's get shot here at home if we're going to be shot...
When it does come out his name will be listed in U. S. journalism's evanescent hall of fame-alongside those of Archibald T. Steele of the Chicago Daily News, Authors Anna Louise Strong. Agnes Smedley, and Captain Evans F. Carlson, retired U. S. Marine observer-as one who went through danger and discomfort to find the big story of Chinese operations deep in the interior behind Japanese front lines...
...remarkable document was in the tradition of Brigadier General William ("Billy") Mitchell, who kicked the complacency out of the air service; of the Marines' General Smedley Butler, Navy's Rear Admiral William Sims, Army's Major General Johnson Hagood, who brought on premature retirement by his reference to "WPA stage money...
While the Japanese were stalled last week in their drive up the Yangtze to Hankow, at Shanghai the Japanese Army seized pro-Chinese books by U. S. Authors Carl Crow, Agnes Smedley, Edgar Snow, two issues of the New York Times, one issue of TIME. The U. S. Consulate protested. In a national radio broadcast Chinese Premier H. H. Kung, descendant of Confucius, described China's bountiful harvests this year, exulted: "God is helping China...
...only foreigners with Communist guerrilla forces are a German instructor and a Turkish doctor. "The Chinese generally believed I was a Soviet staff officer!" laughed Agnes Smedley. "I didn't see a single Russian...