Editing Henry L. Stimson (section)

==World War I==
[[File:111-SC-13856 - NARA - 55187853 (cropped) (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Lieutenant Colonel [[Alfred William Bjornstad]], organizer and director of the U.S. Army Staff College in France, and Lieutenant Colonel Henry L. Stimson who is about to leave the college, July 1918.]]

Following the outbreak of [[World War I]] in 1914, Stimson was a strong supporter of Britain and France, although also supported U.S. neutrality. He called for [[Preparedness Movement|preparation of a large, powerful army]] and was active in the privately funded [[Citizens' Military Training Camp#Plattsburgh Movement|Plattsburg Training Camp Movement]] to train potential officers.

After the U.S. declared war on the [[German Empire]] in April 1917, Stimson was one of the 18 men selected by former President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] to raise a [[Roosevelt's World War I volunteers|volunteer infantry division]] for service in France in 1917. However, President [[Woodrow Wilson]] refused to make use of the volunteers, and the unit was disbanded. Stimson subsequently served in the regular U.S. Army in France as an artillery officer and reached the rank of colonel in August 1918. He continued his military service in the Organized Reserve Corps and rose to the rank of brigadier general in 1922.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/Sw-SA/Stimson2.htm|title=Henry Lewis Stimson|publisher=U.S. Army Center of Military History|access-date=5 January 2017|archive-date=21 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021052629/https://history.army.mil/books/Sw-SA/Stimson2.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>