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The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II

CHAPTER XXI
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They can be trained into an effective army in France in about one fourth of the time that they could be trained anywhere else.
(4) A large loan to the Allies at a low rate of interest.
(5) Ships, ships, ships--troop ships, food ships, munition ships, auxiliary ships to the navy, wooden ships, steel ships, little ships, big ships, ships, ships, ships without number or end.
(6) A clear-cut expression of the moral issue involved in the war.
Every social and political ideal that we stand for is at stake.

If we value democracy in the world, this is the chance to further it or--to bring it into utter disrepute.

After Russia must come Germany and Austria; and then the King-business will pretty nearly be put out of commission.
(7) We must go to war in dead earnest.

We must sign the Allies' agreement not to make a separate peace, and we must stay in to the end.

Then the end will be very greatly hastened.
It's been four years ago to-day since I was first asked to come here.


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