Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1919 — FROM THE ENEMY’S BOOK [ARTICLE]

FROM THE ENEMY’S BOOK

Republican members of the house military affairs committee may be summoned as witnesses to disprove the charges which some of their fellow partisans have been hurling at the war department—ls (hat should become necessary. They have just arrived from France, where they investigated the work of thh American army and the labors of the war department. If they went abroad to criticize they have returned home to praise. "It Is hard to criticize when you consider that they (the war department) were working for an army of 5,000,000 man this year —and that is what they Intended to have and would have had If the fighting had continued," said Representative Anthony of Kansas, ranking Republican on the military affairs committee. Representative Anthony said that he and his Republican associates found that American strategy and operations In the war "worked out exactly as designed," and that the present organization in Franca is in “fine order." Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas, who posed some months ago as an authority on strategy, will doubtless be Inclined to quarrel with a fellow Republican from his own state for omitting to sneer and snarl at American achievements which happened also to have been Democratic achievements.