Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1914 — SAYS U. S. JOKE OF NATIONS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAYS U. S. JOKE OF NATIONS

Curtis Guild Asserts America Novel Has Sunk So Low in Its Foreign Relations. Boston, Mass. —"Never has the United States sunk so low in its relations with other countries,” said Curtis Guild, former governor and former ambassador to Russia, at the annual Grant night dinner of the Middlesex club. "We are the joke of the chancelleries of the world,” he continued. "We have touched the nadir of humiliation. Never in our history have we been obliged to ask or to accept gratefully the offers of any foreign nation to save the people of the United States from the results of-the acta of their president” Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, at a social service con.

ference, criticized the Christian churches of the country for having made no attempt to prevent war with Mexico. “Here within a week,” he asserted, “two Christian races have started fighting. The Christian church did not try to stop this war. They never have tried to stop war. Instead, they have exalted war and given thanks for it.”

Curtis Guild.