Sailing for Scotland on his annual grouse-shooting junket, cob-nosed John Pierpont Morgan groused: "If they start war, certainly my shooting will be interrupted, because everybody would rush off to do what they'd have to do and I wouldn't have anybody with me." Also sailing was the President's mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt. To the question of the hour she replied: "I don't know. I suppose so. But if it does come I'll live through it. And if not—"
In Bydgoszcz, a Polish industrial city, indignant burghers started a lawsuit to establish the Polishness of 16th...
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