The Washington times., 1917-03-25
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AHEADM WAR PLANS
Prepare to Draw Upon Re-
sources of Orient in Men
and Money.
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capacity which nobody would have
suspected. The government of In
dia, right on the heels of Great Brit
ain floating a five-billion-doIlar loan,
effected arrangements to advance five
hundred million dollars to the i'm
perial government for war purposes.
That India has the money, nobody
questions; that country has always
been a magnet for gold. Great boards
of 1t have been gathered in India, and
for many years the problem of COLDS
disappearance into these stores has
been a great concern to the financiers
OF the world. But now India is prov
ing itself for the greater part patri-
otic and devoted to the empire.
Winston Churchill, who, whatever
else may be said of him, possesses a
real imperial Imagination, has warned
the country in a great speech that it
must not delay the organization of In
dia's potential soldiers with the view
to employing as many as a half mill
lion Indian troops in another year.
The break between China and Ger
many was promptly accepted as open
ing a way to utilize the human capital
of China.
Shipping n Problem.
There is most determined antagon-
ism in Great Britain to bringing ORR
entail and African labor, but Mr.
Churchill has warned the country that
II must be prepared for whatever
measures are dictated by necessity
France is already willing to utilize
whatever can be brought to her hand:
there are many who believe that be-
fore another year passes England
VIII be in the same attitude. The
truth is that this war is developing
possibilities such as three short years
ago no man could have believed.
Foremost of all the problems is
that OF shipping to bring together
these resources of all the world. Next
after that is the question of finance.
The shipping difficulty must be met
by the construction of new ships.
and that is primarily a matter of
labor. The new mobilization of the
worlds capacity which men are be-
ginning to vision promises to answer
such questions as these.
On the financial side the things
which France and England have thus
far accomplished are the best testi-
mony as to the ability of the world
to scrape together the wherewithal
to carry on its struggle indefinitely.
There are great difficulties in this
organization of the world for the pur-
pose of demonstrating its real power.
But they are being grappled with,
and although no great amount OF
definite information has been given
to the public there are many reasons
to believe that since the change OF
government took place in England
new enthusiasm has been felt not
only Throughout the entire empire but
in all the other warning countries
and among neutrals, all of whose
neutralities are of a decidedly ben
evolent character.
The United States and the other
American republics have been ira
ditionally so much aloof from Euro
pean affairs that even yet they are
little counted in the appraisal of pos
sibIe resources that the world can
bring to bear. If America becomes
a belligerent the feeling among the
entente powers is that the United
states will provide a leadership that
will presently mobilize behind the
enemies of Germany the power of all
America.
Eyes on Russia.