[The Audacious War by Clarence W. Barron]@TWC D-Link bookThe Audacious War CHAPTER XI 10/10
The one country that the warring world must turn to for supplies is the United States, and that in increasing measure.
Orders for $300,000,000 of war goods already received must be duplicated several times. Every American automobile manufacturer able to deliver motor-trucks in lots of one hundred, has received his orders for shipments to the Allies. Germany has now no base from which to get many important supplies.
In a long contest the Allies will supply motor-cars, shells, guns, and ammunition to a far greater extent than Germany can manufacture them. Factories for this work are expanding in both Russia and America.
The English do not speak against the Germans as a people.
They believe them seriously misled by Prussian militarism, which they declare must be crushed absolutely. Where formerly England was an open door to Germans and suspicions against German spies were laughed at, the bars are now sharply up. Most of the golfing clubs have voted to suspend the activities of members with German antecedents. At the clubs in Pall Mall, notices have been posted requesting members not to introduce during the war Germans or those of German descent. Membership on the Stock Exchange is not continuous as in this country, and at the March elections in 1915 there will be a dropping out of German names..
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