America and the War

The Nation (New York, Februarv 17th, 1932) reports an interesting admission about America’s entry into the World War, made by Mr. Ogden L. Mills, Secretary to the U.S.A. Treasury :—

“Besides ‘making the world safe for democracy,’ the most impelling reason why the United States entered the World-War was to protect its capital loaned abroad. It had loaned money to the Allied nations, and its arms manufactories had rolled vast quantities of war materials to be shot by the Allies into Germany, and against the German army, in protecting France and Belgium.”

The Nation remarks, Eugene Debs and others were jailed for saying this sort of thing when the war was on.