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Sirs: The following is a quotation in a letter written to Colonel E. M. House by Brand Whitlock, then Minister and later Ambassador to Belgium. The letter was written from Havre and dated Sept. 19, 1917: "... I have opportunities to talk with a great many military men, Belgian, English, French and they all unite on this: if America can send over preponderating squadrons of aircraft, the scales of battle will be quickly turned. ... I do not pretend to know anything about the art or science of war, if it is either, but I think I know something about the German...
...From Allan Nevins' Letters and Journal of Brand Whitlock (Appleton-Century...
Colonel Lea and Captain MacPhail had a hard time slowing down after the Armistice. On New Year's Day, 1919, they had a brilliant idea: let's capture the Kaiser. Taking six of their Tennesseans in two touring cars, they drove to Brussels, where they talked Brand Whitlock, U.S. Minister to Belgium, into giving them a pass into Holland-on a "journalistic investigation...
...Denver she got a job as housekeeper to prosperous Harry Whitlock, a widower who lived with his mother and son. Shortly thereafter his mother died of a gastric ailment. Unsuspecting Mr. Whitlock married his jailbird housekeeper and took out an insurance policy in her favor. But police had found the trusty who had helped her escape. Lyda read about it in the newspapers and left town. Police caught her in Topeka, Kans. Whitlock got an annulment of their marriage...
Listed as ushers are Robert L. Fowler III '41, Thomas Gardiner '42, Sherman Gray '41, Lewis Harder '41, Loron MacKinney '42, William Parsons, Jr. '42, James Ronsmantere '40, Emmet Whitlock '41, and J. Prentice Willetts...