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...most amazing social change which the war has brought about is the transformation of our army from a small command of miscellaneous volunteers into a gigantic union of the fighting citizens of the Nation. More than a million men, selected for their youth, their courage, and their virility, are to present America to Europe in the guise of warriors, and in all the pictures which we have been permitted to see of them they are so unmistakably of the New World that only a glance is needed to distinguish them from a group of French or British soldiers, fine, upstanding...
Yesterday Sir Andrew Bonar Law announced in Parliament the results of the U-boats' first year of unrestricted warfare as they compared with the amount of tonnage built during the year. Great Britain and America together had launched only a little over two million tons, whereas it is estimated that the U-boats have sunk some six million tons of Allied shipping...
...true that Germany has not realized her boasts to sink a million tons a month and starve England in half a year. Nevertheless we must not shut our eyes to the fact that her work has been dangerous, and will become fatal if great strides are not taken in ship-building...
...have the chief responsibility for increasing the output of tonnage. Great Britain is already working at top speed, and is also handicapped in the importation of raw materials. We have unlimited resources for making ships and must use them to the utmost. The Shipping Board is working for four million tons this year and with its new organization and wide powers ought to approximate this mark...
...instinct of immediate self-preservation which destroyed the Russian resistance is likely to spread to Western Europe if its peoples are called upon to face a fifth and a sixth year of war. We hope that Germany feels this influence first but we cannot count upon this. Half a million Americans in action this year may avail more than two millions a year from now if the Allies should lose their punch. Let the American force, small as it is, play an important part in the air, on the sea, and on land during the coming campaign...