The New York herald., 1921-03-09
HEAD OF LEGION
SEES Won MACH
AS NEW MENACE
Denounces the Doctor as
Little Brute Who Works
for the Fatherland.'
PROPAGANDA NOW OPEN
National Commander Gal
hraith Calls for Repudia-
tion Of the Boche.'
HUSE URGES BIG NAVY
Rear Admiral Insists That
United States Should Have
Two-Power Fleet.
PROPAGANDA NOW OPEN
HUsE URGES BIG NAVY

More than fifteen hundred men and
cheered last night as F. w. Galbraith,
Jr., national commander, severely
scored DR. Edmund Won Mach. whom
he described as "a little brute who
works not for the United States but
for the fatherland,' at dinner given
in the commanders honor by the New
York county organization of the legion
at the Pennsylvania Hotel. Reference
to DIR. Won Mach as "a certain person
with a moth-eaten pink beard by
Henry w. Buxton, chairman Of the
county committee. also evoked ap-
plause.
Mr.. Galbraith told OF DIR. Won Mach's
visit to his office recently. when the
latter suggested they debate the "hor-
rors on the Rhine" question, and said
that the visit was typical OF the Boche."
"They have never been anything else"
the commander said, they never will
be anything else and. for Gods sake let
them stay on the other side of the ocean
where they belong. His suggestion was
tEt uOlQtSI ever HlHuc TO man. RE
schemed TO bring the American Legion
into his filthy camp. but the Legion
stands under one banner"
The commander declared that the
people who attended the horrors on
the Rhine" meeting in Madison Square
Garden had been "misled and misguided
by false prophets" They We're led on
he said, by such men as DR.. Won Mach.
who are working for the Fatherland.
BOche Propaganda Revealed.
"The wound was about 10 heal" he
said. when these people with their own
hands tore the scab from the wound.
They stand revealed. Boche propaganda
again raises its dirty. nasty head. II
has been going on silently for two
wears. The agents have been trying to
separate US from our comrades in arms.
from the men who bled and died beside
US Won Mach told me the German
people sympathized with our wounded
We don't want their sympathy. We
have the sympathy of America"
Mr.. Galbraith urged a large attend
ance at the For God and Country
meeting the American Legion will hold
In Madison Square Garden March 1S
That is the only language the Boche
viii understand" he said "let there be
an overflow
Rear Admiral II. McP. Huse. com
mander Of the Third Naval district
made plea for two Power navy--a
navy equal TO that OF any two great
Powers.
"No man who has had close view
of war or its results can contemplate
another war with equanimity." he said
THE two great sea Powers to-day are
England and the United States. They
ava xxfff ,f
OF language, OF laws. OF history. OF III
erature. war between these two great
countries Is inconceivable. II would be
a blow such as our civilization has never
vet received a catastrophe greater than
the late war. / have been charged with
prophesying such a war. That is not
true.
ITO Defend Our Peace.v
mo country was ever kept OUT Of war
by policy Of unpreparedness. our pur-
pose must be not to make war but TO de-
fend our peace. l believe that a strong
American navy Is one OF the most potent
factors for peace in the world. l go so
far as TO say that we should have two
Power standard. That Is, that the navy
Of the United States should be as big as
that Of any two countries in the world"
Manhattan Naval Post. which will
hold a mass meeting this evening in
Y. S. No. IL in West Forty-seventh
street made application yesterday for
extra police protection as a result OF a
letter received by the post threatening
20 break up the meeting. The writer
signed Erin Go Bragh."
a score OF other posts passed resolu-
tions condemning the Madison Square
Garden meeting. Resolutions calling TO-
the removal Of Mayor Hylan for failing
70 stop the meeting were adopted last
night amid a tumult OF cheers at a meet
ing in the Thirteenth Regiment Armory.