There is a general confidence that the Allies will hold the Germans in their forthcoming effort to get to Calais or to Paris.

Yet there is an undercurrent of fear.

Nobody knows just how to feel about it.
Probably another prodigious onslaught will be made before you receive this letter.

It seems to me that we can make no intelligent guess until this German effort is finished in France--no guess about the future.

If the Germans get the French ports (Calais, for example) the war will go on indefinitely.