Evening Republican, Volume 46, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1914 — “The Laughing Stock” Today? [ARTICLE]

“The Laughing Stock” Today?

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