Henry Ford.

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Again from the most recent Sunday edition of the Chicago Tribune the headlines as they were one-hundred years ago:

"WAR ON FORD'S PEACE SHIP"

"FORD QUITS TRIP; COMING HOME?"

"FORD PEACE PARTY BREAKING UP"

From the Chicago Flashback article by Ron Grossman:

"Ford's quixotic quest to end war"

The Great War. World War One.

"An industrial magnate, his Peace Ship and four Chicago babies."

"His Model T having revolutionized the auto industry, Henry Ford thought he could end the carnage of World War I by sailing for Europe on the 'Peace Ship', a chartered ocean liner with a large white cross on its hull, and talking some sense into the belligerents."

"It didn't go so well."

BRING THE VARIOUS WARRING PARTIES TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE, BRING ABOUT A SETTLEMENT AND AN END TO THE WAR! SUCH WAS THE INTENTION OF HENRY FORD. BUT TO NO AVAIL!

In memoriam and as correctly observed: "To me the big thing in his action is not the question of whether he will or will not stop the war, but the fact that he was willing to try." - - Carl Laemmie.

I guess that says it all!

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