"America has never produced anybody quite like him, and there has rarely been an American humorist whose words produced less empty laughter or more sober thought. His interviews with Mussolini and Primo de Rivera help to bear out his contention that European disarmament is a farce, and that the League of Nations is a piece of eyewash designed by some of the big powers to manipulate affairs to their own advantage. Perhaps Will Rogers has done more to educate the American public in world affairs than all the professors who have been elucidating the continental chaos since the Treaty of Versailles."
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John Carter, in The New York Times (31 October 1926); also quoted in Will Rogers : A Biography (1962) by Donald Day, Ch. 20, p. 195
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Will Rogers
1879 – 1935
US-amerikanischer Humorist und Schauspieler
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