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...Presidency on a third party ticket. He wrote a letter to Herman L. Ekern, Attorney General of Wisconsin, who had inquired how he felt towards the Farmer-Labor-Progressive Convention to be held in St. Paul on June 17. His reply was that "the June 17 convention will not command the support of the farmers, the workers or other Progressives, because those who have had charge of the arrangements for this convention have committed the fatal error of making the Communists an integral part of their organization...
During the War he refused to take a high command, wisely leaving it to professional soldiers. But he was more often at the front than any of the Entente Sovereigns, constantly encouraging his men and conferring with the Generals. Once, and it is hardly known, he was wounded in the hand. The publication of this fact he peremptorily forbade...
...successful organization--a sound ideal. There can be no dispute about that. We next come to leadership, a very important factor in any case, but of vital consequence in a movement designed to become world-wide. And in this connection I would appeal with all the earnestness at my command to youth to see that it is worthily repre- sented in so great a cause. Here is a fine ambition for the young man of parts who desires to serve his fellow-creatures. As I asked in my previous article: what is American Youth going to do about...
...Bucharest press announced that the Rumanian Army Command had decided to hold maneuvers in Bessarabia (TIME, April 14) during the Fall. In addition to the regular Army, all reservist officers and 100,000 recruits will take part. As possession of Bessarabia by Rumania is acutely disputed by Soviet Russia, the decision to hold maneuvers there was not thought tactful nor likely to lead to a peaceful solution of the Russo-Rumanian...
...writing was done in the Chief Engineer's room of his various ships and was sandwiched in between long hours with engine pumps, port boilers, bilge rams. Now, he has left the sea and lives in Westport, Conn. Among his books: Casuals of the Sea, Aliens, Command, An Ocean Tramp...