A Journal of the Great War

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: able head of the War Trade Board, is a success and is really helping us. In war every man who succeeds must work on his toes. God save us from leaders of society as agents to wield in time of war, for the assistance of an army, the mighty powers of the civil branches of our Government. Secretary McAdoo...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: able head of the War Trade Board, is a success and is really helping us. In war every man who succeeds must work on his toes. God save us from leaders of society as agents to wield in time of war, for the assistance of an army, the mighty powers of the civil branches of our Government. Secretary McAdoo cabled through the War Department to Pershing that he had recommended me for appointment as one of the directors of the proposed government finance corporation, but the C. in C. answered that my field of highest usefulness was here. I do not think I could survive being taken away from this great work of mine here, to which I am giving and shall give all that is in me. As compared with it, nothing that I have done heretofore in life seems important. We have had a bombardment here in Paris this week, and one morning a shell fell every fifteen or twenty minutes; also some air raids from time to time. But when we think of what is going on on the western front this is not worth notice. I really don't know whether anything I have written is worth while. Everything is on such an immense scale these days that one feels very small and humble. Pom, March 31, 1918 (Easter Sunday) (Evening) Some things disquiet me; for instance, an offer wired this morning to me from the British Government, through my representative there, offering us 500,000 camp outfits, as the troops for which they were intended will not be available. Cutcheon arrived in the afternoon and telephoned me. Cutcheon made his point, and if the events of war do not upset our transportation as it is doing now we will get this labor. Everything in war is liable to change overnight. Cutcheon says no word has been received from Washington as a result of the cable of Pershing and myself, but the fact that we told th...