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Before the American troops actually go into the trenches they are supplied with what is now an essential of trench warfare but which is a development of the present conflict-the trench helmet

ARTHUR W. PAGE, EDITOR

CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1917

His Excellency, The Italian Ambassador, Count V. Macchi di Cellere
THE MARCH OF EVENTS-AN EDITORIAL INTERPRETATION

Mr. W. W. Atterbury
Mr. A. Mitchell Palmer

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Col. E. A. Deeds
Mr. Paul S. Reinsch

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AMERICAN LEADERS IN THE WORLD WAR (In full-page colored portraits)

VICE ADMIRAL WILLIAM S. SIMS
GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING

MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM L. SIBERT
MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM A. MANN

"THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL WILL SAY THIS MORNING:" FRENCH STROTHER HARVEST TIME FOR THE GET-RICH-QUICK PROMOTER

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JOHN K. BARNES

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WITH THE BELGIAN KING AND QUEEN AT LA PANNE (Illustrated)

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TERMS: $3.00 a year; single copies, 25 cents. For Foreign Postage add $1.00; Canada 60 cents.
Published monthly. Copyright, 1917, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY.
All rights reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Garden City, N. Y., as second class mail matter.
Unsolicited manuscripts are welcomed by the editors and are carefully read. They cannot, however,
be returned unless they are accompanied by proper amount of postage.

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S. A. EVERITT, Treas.

GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
NEW YORK: 11-13 W. 32nd Street
LOS ANGELES: 412 W. 6th Street

BOSTON: Tremont Bldg.

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HIS EXCELLENCY, THE ITALIAN AMBASSADOR, COUNT V. MACCHI DI CELLERE

Who represents at Washington the nation whose gallant Army has recently borne the heaviest attacks of the Teutonic enemy, and who made so clear his country's need of munitions that our Government gave Italy preference in all shipments from America and a credit of approximately 230 million dollars for the purchase of supplies

VOLUME XXXV

THE

WORLD'S
WORK

DECEMBER, 1917

NUMBER 2

T

THE MARCH OF EVENTS

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HE misfortune which has overtaken Italian arms is the most dramatic of the many pressing reasons for a greater speed and energy in our war preparations. Russia is still in desperate straits. Rumania with its fifteen divisions is in dire need. now Italy has suffered a serious blow. We on our side are so geographically situated that it is extremely difficult to get aid to the weak parts of our combined and far-flung battle line. In almost every case sending aid means ships, and the supply of ships is wofully short. The Germans, on the other hand, can move their troops and their guns from one front to another comparatively quickly and easily. They can make one gun serve a while in Russia and then transfer it to France or Italy. But a gun once with the Russian army must stay there, and it is even extremely difficult to move guns around on the other Allied fronts, particularly as in the Allied armies there are many kinds of artillery using many kinds of ammunition.

The other remedy is to put so much pressure on the Germans in France that they will not be able to concentrate against any of the other portions of the line. The British and French pressure would undoubtedly have been enough if the Russian army had not lost so much of its striking power. As it is, the only way of increasing the pressure in France so as to take all of Germany's attention is for us. to add a force of men to those of the French and British which will be sufficiently large to demand the attention of every spare German soldier. The possibility of our doing this is bound up in two things, the preparation and training of our armies, and the construction of shipping to carry the men across and to keep them supplied when they are on the other side.

We have the power to force a military decision, the power to beat the Germans, to crush autocracy, to free the world. The question is, will we get the power applied in time?

There never was a more vital need of speed than that which confronts us now. Man after man coming back from Europe brings the same message-Hurry! Hurry the ships and hurry the men! Before we entered the war the Allies were too late to save Serbia, the British were too late to capture the Dardanelles, the relief of Kut-el-Amara was too late. Supplies for Italy seem to have failed. It behooves us to put a pressure on the Germans at the earliest possible moment that will prevent any further catastrophes. Copyright, 1917, by Doubleday, Page & Co. All rights reserved

There are two remedies for this. The first is for the United States, Great Britain, and France to send munitions, guns, steel, railroad supplies, and other such necessities to the weaker parts of the line to enable them to meet any sudden German thrusts. This is the most expensive remedy, for it means trying to make every part of the Allied line strong enough to meet the biggest concentration Germany can effect.

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MR. W. W. ATTERBURY

Who put his experience as vice-president in charge of operation of the Pennsylvania Railroad at the disposal of the Government, and who is now director-general of the railroads in France which are being used to transport American troops and their munitions

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