National Affairs: It Must Not Be Again

No spot seems so typically American to Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army, as Chicago. So said the General at the Hotel La Salle last week, guest of the Military Intelligence and Reserve Officers associations. Stiff-jawed, military as a court-martial, Major General Summerall, warmly welcomed, rose, spoke crisp, West-Pointed sentences.

He said: "Our great centres of population and civilization have followed the track of the soldiers, who forced their way through the wilderness and made it safe for settlers and pioneers. . . . When President...