NAVAL MESSAGE
NAVY DEPARTMENT
 
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STARVATION ALREADY UNDERWAY IN EUROPE WHICH WILL INCREASE IN
INTENSITY AS THE WAR CONTINUES X THIS SITUATION STILL TRUE X AMONG
PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO BEAR BRUNT OF IT NO EMOTIONAL BACKGROUND FOR
WAR EXISTS JUST AS IN UNITED STATES AMONG OUR OWN PEOPLE THERE IS
SUCH STRONG UNDERCURRENT OF ANTAGONISM AGAINST WAR AMONG
PEOPLES OF EUROPE THAT ANY POLITICAL LEADER WHO DOES NOT RECOGNIZE
THIS POWERFUL UNDERCURRENT IS LIKELY IN TIME TO FIND HIMSELF IN THE
POSITION OF A FLAGPOLE SITTER X AS A MATTER OF FACT ANY POLITICAL
LEADER IN ANY ONE OF THESE COUNTRIES WHO IS NOT NOW PLANNING HOW
TO BRING ABOUT PEACE CONSISTENT WITH THE HONOR AND PRESTIGE OF HIS
COUNTRY IS EVEN NOW A FLAGPOLE SITTER WHILE THIS LEADER WHICHEVER
HIS COUNTRY IS MAKING BELLIGERENT SPEECHES CROWD IS SHOWING
EVIDENCE NOT ONLY OF NOT LISTENING BUT OF ACTUALLY WALKING AWAY
FROM FLAGPOLE X DISILLUISIONMENT OF FIRST WORLD WAR STILL DOMINATES
FEELINGS OF EVERYONE IN EUROPE TIME SINCE WAR SO SHORT POIGNANT
MEMORIES STILL FRESH FROM GRIEFS