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Show HOPES FDR EARLY END HE WAR UNITED STATES EXPECTED TO PLAY LEADING PART IN BRINGING ABOUT PEACE. Former German Secretary of State for the Colonies Alludes to War ap Stupid, Unnecessary and Uncalled For. New York. Hope for speedy peace between the warring powers of Europe Eu-rope and belief that the "United States would play an important part in the ultimate settlement were expressed Wednesday night by Bernard Dern-burg, Dern-burg, former German secretary of state for the colonies, In an address at a dinner of the Economic club of New York, at which he was guest of honor. He alluded to the war as "stupid, unnecessary and uncalled for," and explained the reasons for his coming to this country at its outbreak. out-break. "We felt," he said, "that the cable of our mutual relations was becoming strained; that Germany was continually continual-ly misunderstood; that for every word we could get our adversaries had seventy sev-enty or more to represent their side. I have been doing my best to lessen that stress and to help prepare a return re-turn to a normal state of affairs and ideas, so that the resumption of business busi-ness should find both countries in the same friendly and respecting attitude that existed before the war broke out." Other speakers were Augustus P. Gardner, representative from Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, and Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Stanford university. |