Professor Hamilton's Diary: Nov. 11, 1935

Armistice Day is observed with parade, reverence for dead, speeches about peace

Professor Hamilton was busy at Albright College and at home today preparing for the International Relations Club’s radio broadcast on the topic “Can the United States Stay Out of the Next War?” That topic was on the minds of many of the people of Reading, Pennsylvania and the rest of the United States, 17 years after the armistice that ended the Great War.

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The picture of a trio of young girls at the Armistice Day parade in Oxford, Ohio in 1918 is from the digital archives of Miami University, accessed via Wikimedia Commons.