All the people you see have lost sons or brothers; mourning becomes visible over a wider area all the time; people talk of nothing else; all the books are about the war; ordinary social life is suspended--people are visibly growing older.

And there are some aspects of it that are incomprehensible.

For instance, a group of American and English military men and correspondents were talking with me yesterday--men who have been on both sides--in Germany and Belgium and in France--and they say that the Germans in France alone have had 750,000 men killed.

The Allies have lost 400,000 to 500,000.

This in France only.