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SOVIET COMMUNISM : A NEW CIVILIZATION?-Sidney and Beatrice Webb-Scribner...
...WEBB New York City
...Miller says he was a timid, colorless bumpkin when he showed up in Chicago for his first newspaper job. Sent to cover police courts, murder trials and hangings, Cub Webster Miller soon learned to talk tough, shortened his first name to Webb "because it made a better by-line." A War correspondent after graduating from the Mexican border troubles, Webb Miller lived through London air raids, saw men die on the Western Front. After the Armistice, as chief of U. P.'s Paris Bureau, Webb Miller watched Poincaré, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson knock together the doomed...
Biggest journalistic show put on by Webb Miller was his coverage of the Italian operations in Ethiopia. He walked his socks into bloody rags following the Italian troops, observed their surprising efficiency in mowing down the natives with bombers, tanks, field guns, gas and liquid fire. At the war's end Correspondent Miller concluded: "After studying the history of the partition of Africa by European powers I felt that the Italian invasion was in fact no less and no more reprehensible than the series of unprovoked aggressions and land grabs by which England, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Germany...
...ever moved by the same emotions, instincts and interests as the single individual. It is conceivable that a dictator awakening one morning with a bellyache might throw his country into a war which might never have happened if he had taken a cathartic the night before." As a lad, Webb Miller was inordinately impressed with the works of Henry David Thoreau, found in that gentle naturalist's Walden a blueprint for human peace & happiness. As a man, though he still carries a tattered copy of Walden wherever he goes, Webb Miller rounds off his memoirs by sombrely remarking that...