The causes and meaning of the great war . Atlantic. By midsummer of1918, the number of men in our navy was morethan three times as great as it had been whenwe entered the war, and the number of vessels inthe American naval service had increased fourfold. 137. Is It too Late for Our Country to RenderEfficient Service on the Far-A way Battle Front? —The most important question of all, however, whenwe entered the war in April, 1917, was this: Hasour country made its great decision to organizefor war too late to render effective service onthe battle front 3,000 miles away ? Germany pre-tended to b
The causes and meaning of the great war . Atlantic. By midsummer of1918, the number of men in our navy was morethan three times as great as it had been whenwe entered the war, and the number of vessels inthe American naval service had increased fourfold. 137. Is It too Late for Our Country to RenderEfficient Service on the Far-A way Battle Front? —The most important question of all, however, whenwe entered the war in April, 1917, was this: Hasour country made its great decision to organizefor war too late to render effective service onthe battle front 3,000 miles away ? Germany pre-tended to believe so, and laughed scornfully at theAmerican preparations. She had crushed Belgium,Serbia, and Rumania, and had so badly defeatedRussia that in her political and military weaknessand confusion she was no longer to be counted asa factor in the conflict. Large numbers of Ger-man troops in Russia were set free for service onthe western front. Confident of victory, the German high commandwas planning to bring the war to a close before. CLEARING FOR ACTIONTHE FORECASTLE OF THE BATTLESHIP MICHIGAN1 no THE CAUSES AND MEANING OF Too late,America!say theGermans Two hugeblunders America could organize, train, and transport over-seas armies large enough to have any effective weightupon the military decision. They said: TheAmerican people are engrossed in material things;they are a conglomeration of many races and there-fore lacking in unity of purpose; they are pacifistsand therefore will not respond to the call formilitary service. But if America should raiseand train her armies/ they continued, theGerman submarine has been so destructive ofshipping that these cannot be transported acrossthe Atlantic. If, however, in some miraculousway, they could reach the battle front, such ama-teur fighters could not stand up against our Ger-man veterans. Too late, America! they said,in jeering tones. You may know how to makemoney, but as a fighting power, you are not worthyof serious considerat
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