Word: supported
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...past year testifies to the creation of a great war machine backed by the support of a united nation, it points equally as well to the course of the future. The coming months, perhaps years, will see increasing burden upon our shoulders. England and France are turning more and more to America for the hope of final victory. In these days, therefore, when human destiny lies in the balance, we must turn our eyes to the enormity of our obligations. Where before they have been met with our material wealth, they must now be faced with the lives...
...pacifistic state. More than half the representatives from Wisconsin voted against declaring war last April and the legislature has only been induced after the lapse of a year to censure the notoriously disloyal La Follette. While the majority of the press and public men have since come out in support of the Government's war policy, it remains for the inarticulate mass of voters, protected by the secrecy of the ballot box, to express the true verdict of the state. The election returns will indicate, more clearly than can newspapers or public speakers, whether the Germans of the Northwest, whose...
...encouragement. We need not be patted on the back by sentimental expressions of the "nobility of our cause" which are insincere and almost repel us from a belief in what we are fighting for. We need less motion picture patriotism and journalistic camouflage and more honest effort and sound support of our Government. Our strength lies in truth. When thousands of British are falling it does no good to assert in huge headlines that "American Troops Stop Germans." It appeals to a selfish national pride, but does little toward winning...
...previous years the offensive might have ended where it now stands. But the German populace demands more than an advance--it demands the destruction of the allied resistance and the capture of Paris. Hinderburg must push the assault, backed with decreasing artillery support and supplied over more and more tenuous lines of transport service. In this he is likely to over-reach himself, and when he does we can count on the strategist Foch, who commands the reserves, to counter-attack relentlessly. The rout into which a demoralized victory can be transformed is well illustrated by the slaughter of Russians...
...progress of the war depends on materials, not on money. We must not confuse loans and taxes, which are the means, with ships and shells and guns and airplanes, which are the ends for which money is raised and appropriated. The people have been generous in the financial support of the Government; since the declaration of war over ten billion dollars has been lent, or paid in the form of taxes, to the Government. Congress has appropriated unstintingly for every object calculated to assist in the prosecution of the war; nearly twenty billion dollars has been alloted to the various...