The death occurred to-day, at the age of 66, of Mr. Newton D. Baker, a lawyer and a fighting pacifist to whose lot it fell, as Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Wilson, to conduct the most stupendous military activity in which the United States had ever engaged.
For five years he managed affairs which began on his advent in office with the Pershing expedition into Mexico and culminated in the World War and the later task of demobilization, Thereafter he fought for the ideals of Wilson, argued for cancellation of war debts and, as one of the eleven members of President Hoover's national law enforcement commission, wrote into the Wickersham report of 1931 a personal declaration in favour of President Hoover's national law enforcement commission, wrote into the Wickersham report of 1931 a personal declaration in favour of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.
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