Those days are now past.

Then he based his plans on munitions.

England has here, with the aid of America, achieved extraordinary results.

But the Somme and Arras showed that, even with those enormous resources, England was not able to beat us.
Now, in his greeting to the American Allies, Lloyd George cries out: 'Ships, ships, and yet more ships.' And this time he is on the right tack; it is on ships that the fate of the British world-empire will depend.
"The Americans, too, have understood this.

They propose to build a thousand wooden vessels of 3,000 tons.