The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-27

Grey, British Foreign Minister,
whose skillfuI diplomacy helped
bring the United States into the
struggle.
ish blockade was forgotten in the
cry of outrage which burst from
our astounded editors. Piracy"
"barbarism run mad" "a triumph
of horror, assassination" shock
ing bloodthirstiness, massacre"
"a crime against humanity were
some of the phrases with which
the pro-Ally newspapers of the
Northeast struggled to express
their indignation over this rela-
lively small addition to the toll of
human life Ca daily 5000 or so),
which the war was taking week in
and week out.
DEFoRE Congress rose in
- March the Republican patri-
OTIS in the Senate reinforced by
seven conservative Democrats)
had talked Mr.. McAdoos ship pur-
chase bill to death with prodigies
of oratorical heroism.
But the arms embargo proposal,
more or less by accident, was
dragged down in the wreck. 1t is
quite possible that the embargo
might have passed had it ever
been brought to vote; as it was
the ship filibuster blocked the way
and Spring-Rice could breathe
again, though uneasily.
For the Germans, on the other
hand, the failure of the embargo
the failure, indeed, of every
American action or representa-
ton which might have disadvan-
tagged the AllieS-was but added
proof that whatever they we're to
get they must get by their own eX-
ertions.
Their propaganda bureau redou-
bled it's activities.
In December the President had
been severe about preparedness;
yet as Congress worked onward
through the winter it was proving
an enticing subject.
New preparedness organizations
we're springing up beside the Ma
tional Security League, under the
delighted patronage and encour-
agement of Gen. Wood. He sup
piled them with irrefutable data;
he lent them his offices; he even
lent them his aid, Capt. Gordon
Johnston
One of them was the American
Legion mot to be confused with
the present American LEGION.
which proposed to enroll 100000
young men to serve voluntarily rs
the army reserve which Congress
cravenly refused to provide for.
Mr.. Roosevelt and his four sons
instantly joined.
CPRING was coming. ]. P.
~ Morgan & Co. we're getting
their Allied purchasing bureau
in running order
Mr.. Morgan himself had run
across to England in March TO
discuss, it was thought, the big
loans which would soon be neces-
sary, with sterling dropping so
fast, if the bureau was to con-
tinue to purchase and so con-
tinue to shower its blessings upon
the American wage-earner and
capitalist.
The military geniuses in their
clustered headquarters were once
more filed with their illusions of
smashing victory, and civilian
hopes Of peace were again being
trampled beneath the feet of the
marching columns.
Italy was now seen to be upon
the verge. Passing through
Rome, Col. House had heard the
rumors. He summed up the sad
truth for Mr.. Bryan:
Everybody seems to want
peace. but nobody is willing to
concede enough to get it" He
went back to London to take
consolation with Sir Edward.
Here a frseh disappointment
awaited him. Even the freedom
of the seas idea collapsed when
the British took the inexplicable
notion that it was a German
proposal.
Another instalIment Of Road to.
War" tomorrow.
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