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Show PREPAREDNESS URGED BY GENERAL WOOD NEW YORK, March 8. Major General Leonard Wood, commander of the central cen-tral deartment, in the first public address he has made in many monLha, today warned the American public not to let "anything, whether a league of nations, a Hague tribunal, or ari international arbitration ar-bitration system, replace a policy of sound, rational preparedness," if the country is to remain in a state of peace. The general, who spoke at the opening of the Methodist centenary movement, declared that "verbal massage, however skilfully applied, will not maintain a permanent per-manent peace." Tie reiterated his well-known well-known stand for universal military training, train-ing, asserting that whatever may be said by Its opponents there was "nothing bad against it." Referring to the period of demobilization demobiliza-tion as the moat dangerous of the war. General Wood urged "practical, kindly consideration" of the problem of unemployed unem-ployed soldiers, stating that general dissatisfaction dis-satisfaction among the discharged troops would breed "what we do not want to see in this country. They have done their work; let us do ours." |