Louis Graves Willard Straight in the Orient

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. My own acquaintance with Willard Straight began about a year before the entrance of America into the world war, when I was associated with him in one of the citizens' movements for preparedness. All who came in close contact with him cheri'shed for him both admiration and affection, and I was like the rest. Such an attachment naturally carried with it a lively interest in his career - a career which was known to have been charged with romance but which, one felt certain, held far more of the picturesque and exciting, of large vision, high idealism and tireless energy behind them, than had ever yet been told.