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...that the first excitement is over, the results of the Zeebrugge-Ostend raid may be more carefully estimated. Clearly there were material gains; part of the Zeebrugge mole was destroyed and the channel at Ostend blocked up, but the chief advantages of the raid were moral. It will probably not take the Germans long to repair the damage, but they will now have to face a reawakened spirit in the British Navy that bodes no good for them. For a long time Zeebrugge and Ostend seem to have held the British in the spell of inaction; they have been regarded...
Foch is a worthy antagonist of the great conqueror of the Masurian Lakes. His quick, decisive thrusts like his famous flanking attack on the Marne, are a match for the ponderous strokes of Hindenburg. His reserve army rushed swiftly into place at the Yser, saved the Channel ports. Though Foch is noted chiefly for his boldness and speed and striking personal appeal, his policy is always sound: Joffre has called him the greatest strategist in Europe...
...remarkable extent, and in so doing has built up the commercial machine. Numerous attempts were made before 1914 to establish aerial postal routes, or freight service between places with poor railroad connection. A project has lately appeared to start such a system between London and Paris. Although crossing the Channel was an unusual feat eight years ago, the recent progress in aviation has made that same trip an every-day occurrence. We have read that the governor of Rhode Island traveled by this method when he visited France not long ago. What was seldom done in times of peace...
...does not mean "real security" for trade in place times. We had that, and in that security Germany forged ahead faster than any other nation. He means security for the German Navy to issue out of the English Channel in time of war and reduce the world to Germany's demands...
...have heard, I got in the way of a bit of shell last August and had a delightful time at Neuilly (the American Ambulance Hospital) for about a month. Then I applied for sick leave to England and spent a most interesting ten days across the Channel. It was my first visit to England, so I would have had a pretty splendid time anyway; but as an added attraction it was the open season for Gothas--the moonlight nights at the end of September...