Extracts From a Few of Hundreds of Letters Praising HUDSON MAXIM'S DEFENSELESS AMERICA
Theodore Roosevelt:
"'Defenseless America' is a capital book. I hope it will have the widest possible circulation throughout our country. The prime duty for this nation is to prepare itself so that it can protect itself; and this is the duty that you are preaching in your admirable volume."
Oscar S. Straus:
"'Defenseless America', coming from an expert, will awaken interest in the most practical method of securing peace by safeguarding our national existence. I am in fullest accord with your Conclusion—an international compact with adequate international force to maintain it, and give adequate guarantee to enforce its decrees."
S. S. McClure:
"A most convincing book on an extraordinarily important subject, done in a manner not only convincing but irrefutable."
Rear-Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee:
"I should not have said that the subject could be treated in a way to make it fascinating to the popular reader, yet I now think that is precisely what you have done. May the book bear good fruit!"
Garrett P. Serviss:
"'Defenseless America' ought to go into the hands of ten million American citizens before another month passes. You have done a magnificent thing for your country! In God's name, may she turn from the silly twaddle of the pacifist wiseacres, and save herself, even on the crumbling verge!"
George von Lengerke Meyer:
"It will go a great ways toward aiding the people of this country to realize the necessity of a proper national defense and a preparedness against war."
Mrs. John A. Logan:
"I wish that every official in the land could read it."
Dr. Orison Swett Marden:
"A colossal, monumental treatment of the subject."
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
"You have brought the whole question of National Defense to a basis which can be readily understood by the average layman."
Lieut. Baron Hrolf von Dewitz:
"In 'Defenseless America' you explode a crater of information on the subject such as has never been detonated before."
Col. Beverley W. Dunn:
"I wish to congratulate you on the conspicuous and valuable service that you have rendered the people of the United States in writing this book."
Dr. E. C. Beck:
"I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this masterpiece of revelation on your part, this opus which I look upon in the nature of an historical event. May the Lord use your book to pound a little sense into our fellow citizens."
Rev. J. F. Stillemans:
"I am only one of thousands who would welcome an edition as cheap as possible of 'Defenseless America' so that we could distribute it freely."
Cleveland Moffett:
"'Defenseless America' is great stuff and ought to be read by every loyal American."
W. Sidney Jopson:
"The direct results of reading 'Defenseless America' were that I went to Plattsburg and applied for admission in our National Guard."