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Show H GENERAL MILES ON MAIN ISSUE B General Nelson A. Miles has been mak- m ing earnest pleas for the assembling of an B international conference or congress in B the interest of prudent disaraiament, B wherever possibe, of international ris- B putes leading to war. His remarks have H i ho relation to the Wilson covenant and the H Wilson League of Nations except as they H exclude the self detennined project byt H requiring that the adjustment of inter- H national controversies sha'l be effected H "without surrendering individual or na- H ' - tional chracter and sovereignty." H" r It is a fine thing to find Genercla Miles H , who fought at Chancelorsville and has H l worn the title of general for not less than H- -V fifty-six years, writing thus, at the age ::i- -v. of 81, abut Senator Harding and Gover- HivJ. i!- ijor Coolidge: B,' "They believe in the adjudication of in- H ternattona1 controversies by arbitration. H As independence has been the glory of K dur country for a century and a half, they H' are strongly opposed to the surender of H; our national character and sovereignty to H' a supergovernment composed of power- H ful nations and insignificant provinces. They believe in a congress of nations that has been advocated by the best minds of the world for centuries and that shall abolish the horror and sacrifices of war' No man has a better right to talk of peace and disarmament than this gallant veteran of many battles. Incidental we wonder how Imany people peo-ple remember the derision that was poured upon a plan of his, twenty or twenty-five years ago, for the revival of tho principal of the old Roman testudo and the extensive employment in taodern military operations of an engine of warfare war-fare thus devised. . General Miles made a mighty effort in behalf of his old Roman testudo and incurred in-curred Jmuch good natured ridicule .from this quarter as well as from othes, it grieves us profoundly to cotnfess, for his professional interest in the archaic weapon. wea-pon. What a satisfaction it must be to him now to know that instead of harking back to the obsolete of many centuries ago, his beloved testudo actually foretold and anticipated an-ticipated "the marvellously efficient and argely decisive tank of the battlefields of thereat World mar. The Sun and New York Herald. it n |