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...your Dec. 14 issue, p. 17, I find the following quotation, purporting to be from a speech made before the Southern Society of New York by Virginia's Senator Carter Glass: "Jube Early was an unreconstructed rebel to the day of his death. He used to come frequently into my newspaper office and one day he said to me: 'Carter, I had hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell...
With the above exception, I concur very heartily in the rest of the quotations from the Senator's speech...
...from the local U. S. businessmen by putting him to bed "with a slight cold." They warmly said that for a man of his years he had done quite enough, and done it very well. At the final Conference windup, Orator Hull was too hoarse to read his speech and that was done by Mr. Velles: "Peace . . . clear vision. . . . Let us return to our particular problems and duties pledging that we will, individually and collectively, reject the counsels of force. Let us hold out to a darkened world the beacon of a just and permanent peace which we pledge ourselves...
...long speech. Mr. Baldwin dwelt upon the evils arising from too little contact between "distinguished Britons," presumably including the King and himself and "distinguished Americans." In his peroration, which seemed to promise eventual cracking of British obstruction to such contact, the Prime Minister cried: "Uninformed criticism on both sides is useless and might, in fact, do each country a great deal of harm!" The U. S. Ambassador is a Kentucky gentleman of the old school, and was much moved when the Prime Minister raised his glass with a bland expression and toasted President Roosevelt's Kentuckian in these words...
Last week the U. S. Embassy confirmed "no change" in this British setup, and kindly Ambassador Bingham is the last gentleman from Kentucky who would think of remonstrating officially with British gentlemen. His reply to Mr. Baldwin's 'ham" toast was a speech of which the keynote was: "I think this evening is one of great importance!" Afterward several chagrined M. P.'s said they had an impression that new King George and the old Prime Minister will be "completely inaccessible to Americans who come over for the Coronation...