Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that the smallest Navy sick list since the War (1925-26) included more than half the Navy's personnel...
...National Cemetery at Arlington, Va., is set aside for members of the Class of 1881 of the U. S. Naval Academy. This plot was dug open last week to receive a casket from Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, containing the body of onetime (1921-25) U. S. Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks, who died July 12, 1926. Chief of Chaplains of the Army John T. Axton (see p. 11) read the committal service...
...quietly with Commander Savage and Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton until a red-coated attendant rapped the gavel. Then he lifted his glass to "The King!" made a short speech and raised his glass again "To the President of the United States." Earl Haig, British commander-in-chief in the War, recalled incidents of U. S. gallantry. Lady Edward Spencer Churchill and Mrs. Adaline Wright Macauley spoke for their respective Legion Auxiliaries...
Last week, through the medium of Major General Sir C. E. Caldwell, two volumes were published in London entitled Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, His Life and Diaries. As was to be expected, their contents were plentifully interlarded with vigorous attacks on the statesmen of the War and armistice periods, most of whom are still celebrities living in shadow of fame...
...War Cabinet we considered Wilson's answer to the Boche. It really is a complete usurpation of the power of negotiation. He practically ignores us and the French. He won't treat with the Hohenzollerns?thus making sure of Bolshevism. He won't treat as long as the Boches sink ships and have other frightfulness. And he is sending a separate letter to Austria. And all this without consultation with his allies. We discussed all this, and I was strongly of opinion that we should go over to Paris at once and register a note to Wilson putting...