OPEN INTERNATIONAL LETTER.
Fellow World Powers: — 1 have a proposition to make to you. 1 have discovered that down m the South Pacific there are a couple of islands which compose New Zealand. These are very foolish islands. They haven't any navy and they have practically no army, and they have spent next to nothing on coast defenc«3. They have simpj^ gone along attending to their farming and thpir mining and their manufacturing, eh.., without iear of attack, and, strange to say, they seem to be prosperous and contented. Now what do you think of that? Don't you hate to see anybody indulging in such foolish experiments? Isn't it a sure .of veUeci ineult to us world powers? And isn't our counse- rJear? Shouldn't we immediately get together, lajid d l^V" forces down there and let them inarch up the principal streets so Uwi they -can. sijo what, a real world powt'i' is' WhiU. ir. the use <if having tho nanw i>f workl power if we are not goijii, to h.ivp. the gain ot it? Up, World PoVers, t-j yonr £mis '— Yours forever, Unclts <3r.ni. — New YorU Life.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 13
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188OPEN INTERNATIONAL LETTER. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 13
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