Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tasker Howard Bliss: A general who has held the high posts of Chief of Staff and member of the Supreme War Council: a warrior who in peace seeks the means to prevent war...
Alanson Bigelow Houghton: American Ambassador to Germany and to England, a skillful pilot in the difficult channels of diplomacy after war...
...Boston and Vicinity went to the movies to cheer news reef pictures of the "boys" off for the trenches and to curse the "Boche" and the "Hun". This week Mr. and Mrs. Smith sat through and obviously enjoyed a moving picture whose here is a German prisoner of war, whose villain is a French officer, whose subject is the mean absurdity of all war and war spirit. "Barbed Wire" is the finest and most complete pictorial indictment of war which has appeared. It must quite frankly be considered "propaganda art." Nevertheless, Mr. and Mrs. Smith applaud...
...they conscious of inconsistency? Ten hears is a brief period in which to forget emotions so fierce as those which the World War produced. And yet they are forgotten. Mr. and Mrs. Smith would simply not believe you if you repeated to them from memory what they were saying about war ten years ago. Yet if you could somehow reverse the progress of time the Mr. Smith of 1917, should he hear the Mr. Smith of 1927, would pronounce the latter a traitor and a coward...
...explanation is simple Mr. and Mrs. Smith move with the crowd. In normal times the crowd assumes a normal attitude toward war. War is not only wrong, it is absurd. In times of stress the crowd assumes an abnoraml attitude toward war. It ceases to question. It becomes hysterical. It becomes a mob. But a mob, because it is hysterical is temporarily affected with a species of insanity. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the fire-eaters of 1927, were as insane as the responsible citizens who are parties to a lynching party. As the Black Plague formely swept...