I have all along cherished an expectation of two things--( 1) That when we did get an American Army by conscription, if it should remain at war long enough to learn the game, it would become the best army that the world ever saw, for the simple reason that its ranks would contain more capable men than any other country has ever produced.

The proof of this comes at once.

Even our new and raw troops have astonished the veterans of the French and British armies and (I have no doubt) of the German Army also.

It'll be our men who will whip the Germans, and there are nobody else's men who could do it.

We've already saved the Entente from collapse by our money.