On August 7th General March, Chief of the American General Staff, said in the Senate Committee, that America would have four millions of men in France, with one million at home, for the campaign of 1919.

"The only way that Germany can be whipped is by America going into this thing with her whole strength.

It is up to us to win the war....

We must force the issue and win." The editor of the _North American Review_ wrote in August, and published in his September number, phrases like the following: "But the hand of the enemy cannot be struck down for a long time to come." "Virtually impregnable positions" are still held by him.

"No military observer is so sanguine as to anticipate anything like conclusive results from the present campaign.