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...hard to believe that the War Department will carry out its threat to call to the colors only fifty per cent of the graduates of the second training camps for reserve officers. To commission the remainder and send them to their homes for an indefinite period without pay would be a breach of promise on the part of the Government. The training camps full quota of officers would be immediately required. In consequence thousands of men beyond draft age gave up their jobs and suspended many responsibilities in the belief that their services were really needed. If these men pass...
With the temporary cessation of activity along the Western Front, interest centers on the movements near Riga and the threat at Petrograd. Whenever a foe plans to invade Russia, one wonders if history will repeat itself. Is there any possibility that the Teutons will be caught in another Poltava or in a second Retreat from Moscow? Some seem to think this likely...
...nation does not need to be frightened into blind purchase by the threat of an indemnity being demanded in case of a German victory. But it does need to realize that each citizen must bear his financial share of the cost of war. There may be no evasion of individual responsibility...
...decided on the battlefield in a future war. If China should have awakened fifty years earlier, and succeeded in establishing a large modern army and navy and developing her resources, the author of the editorial would not probably rest assured that she could not constitute an equally effective threat as militant Japan is often held...
...false democratic understanding with Germany, and a shallow sentimentality for imperial-made socialism, America will be driven to fight thrice as hard. Much treasure will be consumed, irrevocable months will be lost, and many thousands of our brave countrymen meet death that Russia may be freed from the threat of that which may overturn her new found liberty...