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FROM THE ARCHIVEMay 17, 1920·Washington, District of Columbia

OPEN FORUM FOR COMMUNITY DISCUSSION

Scanned from The Washington Times, May 17, 1920
OPEN FORUM FOR COMMUNITY DISCUSSION
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7he City Club of Washington is an open forum where men have opportunity to express and exchange views Its members discuss vital problems with a view to achievement help ful to the community. No politics and no persuasionjust information is the keynote THE NATIONAL daily THE WASHINGTON TIMES may 17 1920 Kerlatcrad at the United State Patant Offlca W W B I V CarrUr Wiu Month By Mall 100 Tmi THINGS IN GENERAL The Presidents Wise Words Useful Crippled Soldiers Everybody has read with admiration and ap proval Woodrow Wilsons telegram to Admiral Sims. The President described the British navy facing submarines as helpless to the point of panic. That must interest the English.

Even more interesting to Americans is the passage in the Presidents cablegram to Sims asking for his inde 1 pendent thought on the whole situation WITHOUT RE GARD TO THE JUDGMENT OF ANYONE ON THAT SIDE OF THE WATER That was the right attitude for the United States in 1917 when the President sent his cablegram. Why is it not the right attitude for the United States in 1920 When we were actually at war when some of us apparently were afraid Germany would come over.

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