Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
BY GILBERT VIVIAN SELDES
Special Correspondence Ercnina Ledger


! active service is formed. with 200 Amcri-
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/ cans VINO know ihe SInpIe iacIS nave nau
" u"u ''',e pe'S"'"''s 'i'e't 'rmua , "
th"' 'h" STORIES are "'' I"I l"rN ,
SuPnos'n I" come from fhr'S an" ''e J"''
the k'hd OF stories "hl'h u" one can ut"!'
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At any rate. the stories are all on the
other side now The Evening STANDARD,
always bitter hater Of America. and par
| ticuIarly Of Nv Wilson, whom il called "A
feeble ideaHst" the day Mr. Hughes was
elected bursts into "A lyric leader under
the caption. Hail columbia" and suggests
that the spirit Of Washington bToOded over
the President. Americans are above par;
they are being sought out for interviews
and for articles and the newspapers print
from four to ten columns Of news from all
parts Of the country. one enterprsing
evening paper apparently sent out its re-
uorters with instructions to get an Amer
lean who talked like David Harum or
some other member Of the "gOl-dern" school
of Yankees and the reporters brought back
/ a snecimen of Yaul;ce swagger which re-
minded real Americans Of the old days when
they sat i'm the gallery and wept at Way
Down East" There is also plenty of talk
ao9u. ou, %,ts ,rs anu con,sEsstton one hears
other things Since the crisis became acul"
| have spoken to every Brlton nave known
about the prospects OF war, ana nave not
heard even once. suggestion ''d' 'u'
| United states ought I" sthd Iorce h,o
| the field BritOns know, ana resent ihe "'u
| taunt about England hghtlhg 10 the IaS'
| drop OF French blood ana theN W"nd"'
| how much more blood theN must sheu on
| the Somme before the Jipe Is slIehceu ioi-
| ever But, except Tor a very lew. no hr!,oi
| mas ever wanted an army from the 'HIlch
! States, and just now most OF them are m
| clined TO think that the twenty or hftN
| thousand Americans serving IN the hhteh'e
| ranks might Wen ne taheii hoiiie W loi'i,
| the nucleus or the army when the 'h'teu
! states VIII nave 10 tFaIh, lheSe men hho"
| tfench warfare ana "oIi" 'hake 'neal non
| commissioner oHcerS or more 'h'N Tor
| moral enect Woulu an army coipa OF amer
| icans be really 'esirapIe' ACCORDING I" lhe
sentiments nave hearu expressed, WIN
! the navy the case Is Ntte dUleren''
! because our SHIPS rouId be used to heip
! against the submarine ana 10 IRE" hF''Sh
| sh ps Tor the engagement Whloh Is newt
! able. As a nauer or tact, mere nave beeh
| a thousand rumutS OF terrlhc naval battle
| since February ], win trightIul casualties
| on hoth sides According 10 the "eIl-lH-
| formed. the rumorS are paSed on hothlng
! more than the uSuai maneuNerS OF the
| Grand Fleet,
uyu A,,or;oo Io;,, +ho En,or+oo
WI -N'"''i'" '''' ''''
The thing that worries a great many peo-
/ ME over here is whether the United States
| il war does come, will join the Entente
! accent her program and perhaps signing
| tho Dact of London, swear not to make a
| sepa rate peace, or will fight separate war
| yielding 10 the demands of military strategy
| hut not OF poltcaL NaturalS' 'heS'WoAid
| that, if war does come on the single point
OF freedom Of the seas, the rest Of the En-
tente program VIII eventually be accepted
| by the United States, Essentially, they
| assert, the United states has declared
| against International lawlessneSs; event
! ualy she must declare for international
| justice, with all the rearrangements Of
| Europe which that involves. II she comes
| into this war, they say, she will be all the
| more anxious to preveI., future wars. She
| will take up position In regard to the
small nations Of the Balkans, to Poland
and even Ireland whlch WIN make for
| peace in the end. That Is why they are
| thoroughly glad TO have her In
Even il Germany should back down, as
| the signs lndlcate now 'he poslt'on OF the
| United states mas oeeh Immensely bettered
| in the eyes or Entente Europe On the day
| before the decision was taken ! called on a
member OF the diplomatic service here, He
| confessed to me that he feared the next
twenty-four hours almost as much as he
had feared the forty-eight which elapsed