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Title: Leonard Wood, administrator, soldier, and citizen
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Hobbs, William Herbert, 1864-1952 Wood, Henry A. Wise (Henry Alexander Wise), 1866-1939
Subjects: Wood, Leonard, 1860-1927
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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efence societiesfound themselves once more divided as towhether it was either wise or expedient tooppose him openly by bold attack upon theseinadequate proposals. The chairman of theConference Committee on National Prepared-ness, Mr. Wise Wood, left the banquet tospeak on preparedness before the Chamber ofCommerce in the city of Portland on the fol-lowing evening. Before leaving the banquethe told Mr. Garrison, the Secretary of War,that in this address he would make the replyof the Preparedness Movement to the Presi-dents speech. Arriving in Portland, he foundthat the President, Secretary Garrison, andSecretary Daniels had all sent telegrams to theChamber of Commerce expressing their in-terest in air defence (Mr. Wood was Presidentof the Association of Aeronautical Engineersand an authority upon questions of air de-fence). In his Portland address, Mr. WiseWood put forth publicly for the first time theprogramme for re-establishing the AmericanNavy in the position of second naval power,
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)U. & u. General Wood and vSecretary Garrison at Dayton, Ohio, during the flood The Darkening of Counsel 167 and he read the endorsement of his plan byex-President Roosevelt in the letter written atOyster Bay a few days before. In this letterColonel Roosevelt said in part: I wish to express my hearty concurrencein the position you have taken upon nationalpreparedness. After repeating Mr. Wise Woods statementconcerning our countrys military and navalobligations, the ex-President continued: And in order to meet these irrevocableobligations, the nation should immediately: Enter upon the construction of a navywhich in size and efficiency shall be suchas speedily to restore it to the position itformerly held, of second naval power in theworld; and amplify its military strength soas to provide an adequate mobile army asan incident to providing the means for suc-cessfully and immediately resisting any ex-pedition that any one of the great militarynations may be capable of putting on ours

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