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...well might U. S. statesmen call on Europe to take a rather larger, a rather kinder, a rather better attitude. But the only direct U. S. rebuttal in Washington last week was a yelp of mental pain, quite lacking in dignified rebuke or injured moral rectitude. Yelped Representative Bertrand H. Snell, onetime upstate New York cheesemaker, chairman of the House Rules Committee: "Why is it that when a group of internationalists get together, they always decide that Uncle Sam must be the goat...
...only trouble with asking an international congress of businessmen to act on such a syllogism is that businessmen are accustomed to think of Disarmament as political, as no business of theirs, as the business of statesmen. Wailed Chicagoan Strawn, who in other respects cooperated closely with the President last week: "The minute the International Chamber of Commerce touches politics we're through...
...gesture. An era of peace follows in which the nations analyze themselves, reckoning the wild abandon, of youth or a business depression as the heritage of war. During this era, men as well as nations analyze themselves and their fellows. A host of memories is foisted upon the people. Statesmen, generals, politicians all, in the perspective of the years, gloss their blunders and magnify their names, Reputations are made by the stroke...
...topic in a speech last week welcoming the International Chamber of Commerce to Washington. Said he: "It is within the power of business men of the world to insist that this problem shall be met with sincerity, courage, and constructive action. It is within the power of statesmen to give to the world a great assurance for the future and a great moral victory for humanity...
General Pershing had two prime objections to U. S. soldiers in foreign forces: i) they would be infected by the low morale of the Allied troops; 2) they would learn only trench warfare. He pounded the table, talked as no general had ever before talked to foreign statesmen and soldiers. When they could not budge him, they made appeals behind his back to President Wilson. It was small wonder that General Pershing got the fixed notion that France and Britain were working to control U. S. troops and thus prevent the creation of a U. S. army as a means...