World War One - Aftermath

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Left Wing Demonstrations That Lead to...

An Open Letter to Boys of Military Age (Script, 1938)

The fellow who wrote this article was named Paul Gerard Smith (1894 – 1968); he has a big long list of credits on IMBD and a bunch of other Hollywood sites. For those who remember him and his long body of work, he was a funny man and a clever screen writer, but the fellow who wrote this piece was the sullen Paul Gerard Smith that few ever got to know. Smith was a World War I veteran who got a belly-full of war and was mighty sore about how he had been fooled into going in the first place. In this article he cautions the young men of his day to make their decisions wisely before marching off to war.

W.W. I and the World It Created (Ken Magazine, 1938)

This is an opinion piece written at a time when the world stood on the doorstep of World War II. The writer went to some length to outline the fatal errors made just one generation earlier and how the sins were to paid for by their sons and daughters:

"The world of today, an upheaval of antagonisms heading toward destructive war, was not inevetable. Russia need not have fallen to the Bolshevists, Germany to the Nazis, Italy to the Fascists. The United States need not have entered the Great War. Two miliion men slain in battle need not have died. These consequences resulted from a decision of a few men during the World War."

Click here to read what the Kaiser thought of Adolf Hitler.

Forgiveness Reigns at Verdun Reunion (Literary Digest, 1936)

This magazine article is a great read for any sentimental old sap who has ever crossed the water to walk among the headstones or wander pensively upon that ground where the blood once flowed between the years 1914 and 1918. It concerns the July 14, 1936 reunion at Verdun where the old combatants of the great war were:

"Called together at historic Fort Douaumont, captured and retaken a score of times during those dark days of 1916, to swear a solemn oath to work for peace, the disillusioned survivors of their father's folly found Verdun changed, yet unchanged and changeless."

The article is filled with stories of how those middle-aged veterans gathered to swap stories, walk the Ossuary, sing songs, cry, remember and forgive one another.

Click here to read another article concerning peace-loving veterans of World War One.

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