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Into this paradise stepped a group of women. There were Mrs. John Jay White, Mrs. Henry Villard (wife of the journalist-financier Henry Villard, daughter of William Lloyd Garrison, famed abolitionist, mother of Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the Nation), Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram, Mrs. Edward Thomas and many another. None of the ladies brought her children or any other children...
They came from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. They came with a message from the League. The message which Mrs. White, Mrs. Villard and the others brought was this: War toys instil into a child's mind a militaristic spirit. Therefore the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom wishes to do away with war toys. It requests the toy manufacturers to aid it by ceasing to make the devices which prompt the young and innocent to devilish thoughts of war. If the toy manufacturers will cease, the Women's International...
...great literate public which is below even the reach of the Saturday Evening Post has found a new source of reading matter. Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard Investigates it and gives his results in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. He finds that magazines with a bold sex appeal such as True Confessions. Artists and Models, and Hot Dog are enjoying a tremendous vogue. Mr. Villard recognizes that danger but he would not have a rigid censorship. They are after all, a small price to pay for liberty...
...business men, labor leaders, missionaries and students of foreign affairs, met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore at an International Conference on American relations with China. All week they listened to reports, weighed opinions, rumors, and theories about China and her relations with the U. S. Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of The Nation made impassioned speeches, as did many another. Before adjourning the Conference reversed its announced intention of not going on record with opinions about China; passed by a majority of 125 to 25 a resolution declaring that "Extraterritoriality should be abolished and tariff autonomy given to the Chinese...
...Henry Villard's peace booklets were removed from the distributing table. She had understood that they were permitted...