The World War: Its Tragedies And Its Lessons
Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher: Good Press
Summary
The World War: Its Tragedies And Its Lessons by Theodore Roosevelt is about Theodore Roosevelt's reflections on the involvement of various countries during the First World War. Excerpt: "In the New York Evening Post for September 30, 1814, a correspondent writes from Washington that on the ruins of the Capitol, which had just been burned by a small British army, various disgusted patriots had written sentences which included the following: "Fruits of war without preparation" and "Mirror of democracy." A century later, in December 1914, the same paper, ardently championing the policy of national unpreparedness and claiming that democracy was incompatible with preparedness against war, declared that it was moved to tears by its pleasure in the similar championship of the same policy contained in President Wilson's just-published message to Congress."