Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1914 — “The Laughing Stock” Today? [ARTICLE]

“The Laughing Stock” Today?

New York World. During the long months of our “watchful waiting” ip Mexico, we were told by eritics of the Wilson administration that American diplomacy was “the laughing stock of Europe.” * - British, German, French and Austrian political writers never tired ot explaining how ridiculous was the attitude of the United States, and how certain it was to. end in disaster. . Yet onr much-derided American diplomacy solved tbe American problem without a war, while one short week of European diplomacy has plunged Europe Into the greatest conflict known to history.