Imaginary Interviews: Sep. 17, 1923

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David Lloyd George: "In a signed article on the Italo-Greek controversy for the Hearst newspapers, I said: ' The Treaty of Versailles is being gradually torn to pieces by countries which are not only its authors, but have most to gain by its provisions. ... It would have been a more honorable course for the nations to pursue if they had followed the example of America by refusing to ratify the whole Treaty.'"

Alexandre Millerand, President of France: " Various political interpretations were placed by Parisians on a report that Pope Pius XI intends to confer the Order of the Golden Rose upon my wife, and also present her with a golden rosebud insigne."

Royal S. Copeland, U. S. Senator from New York: " Speaking before the Advertising Club (of Manhattan), I recommended that the U. S. Government return to Monticello the 10,000-volume library of Thomas Jefferson, which it took him more than 50 years to collect and which he transferred to Congress for only $23,950 after the British burned the City of Washington in 1814 and destroyed the library there at that time."

Owen Johnson, novelist: "I won first prize (a silver cup) at the Stockbridge (Mass.) Grange Fair for best display of farm products, vegetables, flowers. Norman H. Davis (financial adviser to President Wilson at Paris) won in the six variety class in vegetables."

Mrs. Irene Castle Treman: "Eighty-two residents of Fort Worth, Tex., signed a petition to have the name of Fort Worth's widest street changed from ' Vernon Castle Boulevard' back to ' Boulevard,' its original name. My former husband was killed at Fort Worth in an airplane crash February 15, 1918."

Sherwood Anderson, novelist: "My wife Beanie home from Italy and was surprised to find Americans had not learned how generally castor oil discipline was administered by the Fascisti. To a reporter she said: ' Every Communist found was compelled either to sip or gulp a pint of castor oil. It was amusing to see Fascisti, wearing black shirts and looking very earnest, bottles sticking out of their hip pockets, chasing wildly down the street after a shrieking Communist. Then the capture, the terrible assault, hurling the luckless Red to the sidewalk, injecting the bottle into his mouth to the muffled accompaniment of blasphemy of all the gods and devils in the universe'."