Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-13

I months. He does not know America | He is confident in the alternative that 1 when America is ready at the end o1 1 twelve months with her army she will 1 have no ships to transport an army to I the field of battle. In General won 1 Hindenburgs words, America carries no weight. He means that she has no ships to carry weight It is not wise always to assume that even the German general staff. as has happen
 ed so often, have made calculations
 that they have no right to make and
 therefore 1t behooves the whole of the
 allies, Great Britain and America mo-
 tably, to see that that reckoning of
 General von Hindenburg is false reck-
 Oning-
 The Great Need of Ships.
 The road to victory. the guarantee of victory, the absolute assurance' of ships-and a second word-ships-and 9 third word-ships. With that keen ness which characterizes your nation ! see that they fully realize that and l see today that they have already made arranged to build ships by the thousand-one thousand, three thous- and tonners for the Atlantic I be- IieVe that the Germans and their mili- tary advisors are already beginning to realize that this is another of their miscaJculations. which Is going 10 lead them to disaster and ruin. Voc will pardon me for just emphasizing that we are a slow people-slow and blund- ering, but we get there. You get there sooner. That is why am glad to see you in. We have been in this bus mess for three years.
 Have Made sIunders.
 We have made, as we generally do. every blunder. In consequence we have got through every blunder. respectfully suggest that it is worth a good deal to study our blunders so as to begin where we are now, not 1 where we were three years ago. In war, time is everything: time has a tragic significance. The step which i we are taking today may lead to sure 1 taking it tomorrow may avert l disaster. All of the allies have dis ] that it was trackless and mapless. but | we found the way and I am glad that l you are sending your great naval and l military experts here just to inter l change, experience with men who l have been all through the dreATy, 1 anxious course of the last three years. l America Helped Win Battle of Arras. 1
 America has helped us even to win | the battle of Arras. She has been 1 making guns, making ammunition. l supplying us with shells and she has ! got all of that organization and has | go that wonderful fertile adaptabtlity | and resourcefulness of the great peo- ole who inhabit that great country. ] It was a bad day for the military au- tocracy in Prussia, when it challeng- l ed the great republic of the west. We 1now America and we also know that now she has said it, she will do it. She will wage strong and successful war md there is something more i'm oortant, she will ensue a beneficent peace. ! am the last man in the for three years what ,ur difficulties have been, what our lnxieties have been and what our fears nave been-1 am the last man in the ! world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in it. ;elf something to rejoice at and to re- oice at greatly. But I also say. that
 can see more in the knowledge that m erica, is going to win a right to be tt the conference table when the terms if peace are discussed. That, con arence will settle the destiny Of ma ions and the course of human life for | Sod knows how many ages. It would rave been tragedy, tragedy for mankind, if America had not been here
 Democracy Means Peace.
 T can see peace,> not a peace to be beginning of war. not a peace which vill be an endless preparation for 1 trife and bloodshed, bat a real peace. ! he world is old world You have ! ever had the rocking war ffaf rolled |