[A Straight Deal by Owen Wister]@TWC D-Link bookA Straight Deal CHAPTER XIV: England the Slacker! 14/20
In the first nine months of 1917 British airmen brought down 876 enemy machines and drove down 759 out of control.
From July, 1917, to June, 1918, 4102 enemy machines were destroyed or brought down with a loss of 1213 machines. Besides financing her own war costs she had by October, 1917, loaned eight hundred million dollars to the Dominions and five billion five hundred million to the Allies.
She raised five billion in thirty days. In the first eight months of 1918 she contributed to the various forms of war loan at the average rate of one hundred and twenty-four million, eight hundred thousand a week. Is that enough? Enough to show what England did in the War? No, it is not enough for such people as continue to ask what she did.
Nothing would suffice these persons.
During the earlier stages of the War it was possible that the question could be asked honestly--though never intelligently--because the facts and figures were not at that time always accessible.
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