Gregory Mason: publicist, war correspondent and special investigator for "The Outlook"

              Gregory Mason



Publicist, War Correspondent and Special Investigator for The Outlook




Talks on America's Responsibilities and Opportunities




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GREGORY MASON



AFTER twenty-seven months in twenty-seven countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Gregory Mason, the famous Editorial Investigator and War Correspondent of 
The Outlook,
 has returned to America with a message of vital importance to his countrymen.




The period of world's history upon which we are now entering is America's era.  The older nations, exhausted and disillusioned, look to the United States for material assistance and for spiritual inspiration.  Our opportunities for expanse and enlargement in every way are limitless.  American institutions, from foreign trade and foreign missions to the moral and political institutions peculiar to us alone, are destined to spread over the world.




Why is the Armenian republic modeled after our own?




why do the Turks, Finns, Poles, Georgians, and negro tribes on the west coast of Africa want America as their protector?




Why is there agitation far south of the Equator for a United States of South Africa?




Why do the Chinese and Koreans appeal particularly to us to free them from the 
yoke of Japan
, and why do the Japanese desire our friendship more than that of any other nation, so much so that they have made sweeping concessions in Shantung to appease American public opinion?




Whether we like it or not, America can never return to her traditional isolation.  That isolation was broken forever when, in April, 1917, we decided that our great strength would be thrown into the war to bring victory to the side of justice.  And since America can never more play the role of international ostrich, it behooves Americans to know something of the great world problems which we are now called upon to face.




No one is better qualified to explain these problems than Gregory Mason.  For the past seven years he has been explaining national and international questions through the columns of 
The Outlook.
  No other publicist or correspondent has had a more varied and voluminous experience in the war than Mason.  In the early days of the conflict he went to Russia.  His lectures in the season of 1915–16 and his articles in 
The Outlook
 first called the attention of the Allied publics to the grave danger of a revolution in Russia which would give Germany her great chance to win.




When the Czar was overthrown, Mr. mason went to Russia.  He crossed on the same ship that carried Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik leader, on his mission of disruption and iconoclasm.  His account of Bolshevist Russia answers the questions you have asked elsewhere in vain, and it is fascinating for its intimate and human quality.




From Russia Gregory Mason followed the thread of German propaganda and sinister intrigue into China and Japan.  Then he went to England by way of South Africa.  Admiral Sims gave him the rare privilege of hunting German U-boats in American submarines and balloons.  The strain of being under water sixteen hours out of every twenty-four undermined the correspondent's health, but he got out of the hospital in time to be with the advance guard of the Yanks in the great Argonne-Meuse offensive which broke the waning power of Germany and ended the war.




After the signing of the armistice, Mason was the first American correspondent to cross the Rhine.  Altogether he made three trips into Germany, once getting out his valuable story of the revolution by flying from Berlin to Munich in a German war-plane driven by a German 
ace
.  Since the fighting stopped he has been all over Europe and has interviewed the Chancellor of Austria, the President of Czecho-Slovakia, and the Premiers of Greece, Rumania, and Jugo-Slavia, and other great statesmen.






HIS LECTURES



America's World



This is America's day.  The whole world looks to us for leadership.  From the time of Columbus, for 400 years civilization flowed to the west from the east.  Now it is flowing back to the east from the west.  American ships are carrying American food to hungry Britons, Frenchmen, Germans, Armenians and Russians.  American doctors and nurses under the Red Cross and the army are succoring Belgians, Italians, Czecho-Slovaks, Jugo-Slavs, Italians and Syrians.  Even more vital, although less noticeable, is the inculcation of American ideals, philosophy and moral institutions in Europe and Asia.  England's liquor interests are awaiting and fearing American 
'prohibition missionaries.
  All Europe is much more aware of our great influence and the power of our example than we are.  The Chancellor of Austria told Mr. Mason that 
the peace and orderly development of the world is in the hands of the Anglo-Saxons.



The New Near East



The immediate cause of the war was the conflict of Slavic and Teutonic ambitions in the Balkans.  The settlements made in that part of the world by the Peace Conference are not all that might be desired from the point of view of world peace.  What do you know about the friction between the Czecho-Slovaks and the Poles, between the Rumanians and the Hungarians, between the Italians and the Jugo-Slavs, et cetera?  The Turks want us to be their protector.  Should we accept this responsibility?  Why is it that the American Commissioners at Constantinople are in favor of having the United States take a mandate for Turkey and Armenia together but are opposed to having us take a mandate for either separately?  Why do many missionaries take an opposite view?



The New Far East



The greatest danger of another world war lies in the possible formation of a great German-Russian-Japanese alliance, which many experts believe would eventually be too strong for the group of western Powers, America, Britain, France.  Mr. Mason followed the trail of German intrigue throughout the Far East.  In Japan he is known as 
the Cabinet Breaker.
  His interview with the then Premier, Count Terauchi, published in 
The Outlook,
 caused the downfall of the Terauchi Ministry and a political sensation in the Far East.  Mr. Mason says that 
America and Germany are rival suitors for the hand of Japan.
  He shows how we may keep the friendly support of the Japanese in international matters without abandoning our traditional attitude of friendship toward China.



How To Save Mexico



Wars may come and Wars may go but the Mexican problem remains.  Mr. Mason has been to Mexico three times for 
The Outlook
 and is familiar with conditions from Chihuahua to Yucatan, while he knows intimately the outstanding leaders, Carranza, Villa, Obregon, Gonzales, etc. His articles on Mexico and his interviews with Carranza and Villa have attracted much attention, and he has been honored by being called into consultation by high officials of the American Government in moulding the policy of the United States toward Mexico.  This lecture combines a graphic picture of present conditions in Mexico with the forceful exposition of a program to save Mexico from the anarchy and dissolution which threaten to ruin her.




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