We all hope and most of us think it won't be too long now. And yet there is the possibility of it going on and on, even after we are deep in Germany. The Germans are desperate and their leaders have nothing to quit for. Every day the war continues is another hideous blackmark against the German nation. They are beaten and they haven't quit.
Every life lost from here is a life lost to no purpose.
If Germany does deliberately drag this war on she will so infuriate the world by her inhuman bullheadness that she is apt to be committing national suicide. In our campaigns we felt we were fighting, on the whole, a pretty good people. But we don't feel that way now. A change has occurred. On the western front the Germans have shown their cruelty of mind.