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Show Ull PACIFISTS ARE AGAINST WOOD Believe His Speeches Highly Improper for an Officer of Army. NEW YORK, March 21. The emergency emer-gency peace federation, in a statement issued today, supports Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Leland Stanford university. In his protest to the war department against recent speeches of Major General Leonard Wood. "It was not one speech, but a number num-ber of them, made by General Wood." says the federation, "which we think highly improper from an officer In active ac-tive service. Some time ago in California Cali-fornia General Wood made speeches advocating preparedness against possible pos-sible war with Japan." General Wood, in reply, says that his recent speech at the Economic club dinner here, which is supposed to have called forth these protests, made no reference to war with any country. "It was simply a protest," said the General, "against the Individualistic views of certain speakers who had preceded me. "I haven't spoken in California since 1912. and then no reference ref-erence was made 10 possible war with Japan." |