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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, November-December 1917

1917-11-14 Robert M. Browning to Miss Mabel C. Williams Page 2 - Clipping

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Wilson's Message to U.S> Toilers
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"May I not say that it is amazing to me that any group of people should be so ill-informed as to suppose, as some groups in Russia aparently suppose, that any reforms planned in the interest of the people can live in the presence of a Germany powerful enough to undermine or overthrow them by intrigue of force. Any body of free men that compounds with the present German government is compounding for its own destruction. But that is not the whole of the story. Any man in America, or anywhere else, who supposes that the free industry and enterprise of the world can continue if the Pan-German plan is achieved and German power fastened upon the world, is as fatuous as the dreamers of Russia.
Peace Only by Victory
"What I am opposed to is not the feeling of the pacifists, but their stupidity. My heart is with them, but my mind has a contempt for them. I want peace, bu I know how to get it, and they do not.
"You will notice that I sent a friend of mine, Colonel House, to Europe who is as great a lover of peace as any man in the world; but I did not send him on a peace mission; I sent him to take part in a conference as to how the war was to be won, and he knows, as I know, that that is the way to get peace, if you want it for more than a few minutes.

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Please show this to Miss Knight and any others. Wilson's Message to U.S> Toilers Continued from Page 1. "May I not say that it is amazing to me that any group of people should be so ill-informed as to suppose, as some groups in Russia aparently suppose, that any reforms planned in the interest of the people can live in the presence of a Germany powerful enough to undermine or overthrow them by intrigue of force. Any body of free men that compounds with the present German government is compounding for its own destruction. But that is not the whole of the story. Any man in America, or anywhere else, who supposes that the free industry and enterprise of the world can continue if the Pan-German plan is achieved and German power fastened upon the world, is as fatuous as the dreamers of Russia. Peace Only by Victory "What I am opposed to is not the feeling of the pacifists, but their stupidity. My heart is with them, but my mind has a contempt for them. I want peace, bu I know how to get it, and they do not. "You will notice that I sent a friend of mine, Colonel House, to Europe who is as great a lover of peace as any man in the world; but I did not send him on a peace mission; I sent him to take part in a conference as to how the war was to be won, and he knows, as I know, that that is the way to get peace, if you want it for more than a few minutes.