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...petition deals. The document, signed by hundreds of Harvard students, is not an ironbound pacifist ukase. Behind it is the reasoned conviction that the way in which America drifted toward war in those years was unintelligent and unworthy of our nation. These are the footsteps we are determined to avoid...
Army sentries were rapidly posted at every conceivably vulnerable point with orders to challenge and open fire if the challengee should not stand perfectly still and cry, "Friend!" That these orders were in lethal earnest the War Office emphasized by announcing: "Those suffering from deafness are advised to avoid any point occupied by troops at which a sentry is known to be posted...
Fields: "You can't get away with that stuff todav." Published in London was A Kitchen Goes to War, ration-time cookery book designed to avoid waste, achieve "variety and a well-balanced diet." Some contributors: Viscountess Astor (Haddock Fin-landais); Sir Malcolm Campbell (How to Make the Best of Your Bacon Ration); Viscountess Halifax (Savoury Haddock); H. W. ("Bunny") Austin (Tomato and Asparagus Bundles); Sir Hugh Walpole
...course of the next two years," Buell believes, "America should be able to bring about a just peace in Europe, if it exercises its powers wisely." His program for mediation would avoid the error of Woodrow Wilson by requiring that the Allies agree with the U. S. on a world settlement beforehand. For getting in training for the grand event he suggests: 1) better intramural cooperation between Congress and the State Department, perhaps through a joint Congressional committee or the appearance of the Secretary of State before the Senate for full dress debates; 2) wartime economic measures including lower tariffs...
...hardly be a threat to the Americas: after its wearying death-grapple with England and France, it would have to bring the other countries of Europe to a state of subjection and non-resistance, entrench its continental position enough to allow it to turn its eyes to this hemisphere, avoid war with Italy and Russia, and then attack South America. Meanwhile the United States would have had time and to spare, in which to make this hemisphere impregnable...