That's the real eventuality to be feared--a German defeat in the West but a German victory in the Southeast.

Everybody in Europe is so war weary that such a plan _may_ succeed.
On the other hand, what Hoover and Northcliffe fear may come true--that the Germans are going to keep up the struggle for years--till their armies are practically obliterated, as Lee's army was.

If the Allies were actually to kill (not merely wound, but actually kill) 5,000 Germans a day for 300 days a year, it would take about four years to obliterate the whole German Army.

There is the bare possibility, therefore, of a long struggle yet.

But I can't believe it.