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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1917
Page
9
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The Frankfurter Zeitung critiques American embargo policy and cites German views on brutality, praising and condemning claims of violence. It argues neutrals and the entente face harsh consequences from U S intervention, while Belgium and Poland reflect on past aid from England and France. The piece casts the embargo as shifting burden to neutrals and notes a sharp moral inversion in wartime rhetoric.
A historical reflection argues that right, not force, governs victory. It cites Von Bethmann Hollweg’s 1913 critique of German methods, asserting moral force and truth outlast brute power as neutral nations judge the Kaiser’s regime. The piece links German unrest to broader world reaction.
The treaty between the United States and Italy sets the framework for Cocchi extradition, requiring Italian judgment on whether extradition is due. The issue hinges on Italian law definitions of murder and potential insanity, with Italy’s decision to be based on law and evidence, not public opinion. Both nations seek harmony and pledged loyalty as allies in the war.
The text critiques German militarism and its wartime victory gains. It notes Bethmann Hollweg’s prewar warning that force alone cannot sustain what force wins. It emphasizes that recent developments vindicate that wisdom and challenge the system’s liberty implications.
President Wilson denounces fixed war freight rates and calls for consolidated international control over shipping and ocean charges. He highlights that American shipowners, a minority, profit by following foreign rate hikes, while only a fraction of U S commerce travels on U S ships. An international shipping commission with real power is urged to curb prices and aid the economy.
The New Republic argues shipping policy must safeguard North Atlantic tonnage while ensuring Latin American trade remains unstarved. With German Belgian trade halted and European export power reduced, Latin American nations lean on the United States for essential raw materials and financial stability through uninterrupted exports.
J C Madden three days out of Montana State prison on parole wore the penitentiary suit and carried the state ten dollars. He posed as a rich cattleman’s son in Butte last Friday. Madden bought a 1500 dollar automobile and a hotel room at Dewey while cashing checks worth several thousand dollars in Butte Dewey and Divide. He remains at large.
A Belleville young man failed to register and produced his family Bible when questioned, showing him to be 32. An officer then found his sister was only three months older, implying any change to the record would require moving the entire family up.
The Philadelphia Record notes that 60 years ago Prussia ruled with no diet and taxes without laws, a pattern William II longs for, but Bethmann-Hollweg is not Bismarck and Bismarckism wouldn’t work today. a two week vacation prompts reflection on beating the President to it.
Sir Mark Sykes sells the entire crop of Sledmere Stud yearlings to an American buyer, likely August Belmont. Five colts and twelve fillies represent Britain’s top bloodlines, with a rumored price around 250000 dollars. The sale shocks English breeders and bolsters arguments to repeal wartime racing bans, as the Sykes family long dominated horse racing.
The ode by Cale Young Rice in the Vigilantes urges warring to end war and defend right. The Sioux chiefs express willingness to fight in Europe if allowed to honor traditional combat, with a grim teaser remark about killing Germans in a night. A brief joke about invisible suits closes the column.
The Normandy noblewoman Charlotte Corday assassinates Jean Paul Marat during the French Revolution, entering his bathhouse and stabbing him to end his dictatorial cries. She is captured, defends her act in prison, and is executed by guillotine on July 17 1793 after declaring she killed one man to save a hundred thousand. Her conduct is described as noble yet rash, with Marat depicted as a martyr to some.
New York figure Henry Jeremiah O M ore showcases a velvet vest to boost enlistment at 280 Broadway recruiting office. He claims to have recruited one man this morning and vows to raise two battalions as a novelty public stunt. The piece links his antics to patriotic war efforts and notes a playful exchange in Union Square about enlisting. It references humor in wartime recruitment and mirrors public interest in unconventional methods.
Recessed at 5 20 p m until today noon after conferences on the administration food bill. Leaders agreed to substitute a board of food administration for a single food controller and to limit control to food feeds and fuel, with iron and steel debated. Senate debate focused on Hoover as food controller. Hearings planned on a New York women’s delegation about the food question. The House aviation bill passed and expeditious Senate action anticipated. Additional notes cover state guard training, navy staff corps, price controls, census population figures, I W W investigations, and direct election proposals.
Army personnel changes list Lieut Col Herbert A White to report for Panama Canal duty as judge advocate Capt Edgar W Miller designated to examine medical corps applicants at Syracuse Capt Earl Atkisson relieved from Third engineers reassigned to Sixth engineers in Washington Capt David McCoach Jr assigned to First battalion mounted engineers to join at El Paso Capt Roscoe C Crawford assigned to Second battalion mounted engineers to join at El Paso Officers named majors in Philippine scouts Captain Bertram P Johnson Thirteenth Infantry and Allen Kimberly coast artillery detached officers Second Lt Edward G Tomlinson assigned to Seventh company Fort Monroe Va Promotion announced for Capt Franklin R Kenney to major on retired list Second Lt Folsome R Parker Cavalry assigned to the Nineteenth Cavalry.
In Washington, Sir Thomas White of Canada conferred with the U S Secretary of the Treasury on Canada United States trade and borrowing in New York. He noted Canada as a major customer, with a 664 million dollar import surplus over the United States in the last fiscal year, and discussed war loans and exchange rates amid wartime conditions.
Mrs Malone says her son Bobby now travels with a circus living as a gentleman. He carries money and a handsome salary, but must face danger as he places his head in the lion's mouth two or three times daily.
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