New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-15
americas Entrance Into the War Regard
ID as the Greatest Moral Victory
for the Allies Since the Marne-
France Hopes to See Our
Vanguard Soon
By FRANK H. SIMONDS
Author Of '"The Great War; 'They Shall Not Pass

will probably come into the war
..,o train large bodies Of troops for
in the trenches, but l feel sure
<r.rv volunteers could come and will
o.er and pass through our training
Why. there arc already 10000
'.;.,ps A. the front in our armies
- This comment, made to me In the
-, eek Of February by the British
DIV. Minister, Dir. Lloyd George fairly
go. the view that prevailed in Lon
ia. moment Of American military
,,,saAton in the war.
t,interesting to recall now that there
mt the slightest doubt in Lloyd
c.,-,vs mind at that time as to the en-
,.,,,, q America into the war. He was
:. av confident Of it, but he spoke to
s.,,.r Hale and myself about it as an
scared thing.
DO not understand how you could
,.sr-. this German policy so long," he
s.@t is incredible-and now that they
.,,. p-.scribed that you shall send only one
On week, and that ship marked like
r,rk paddle steamer-no-you cannot
,!r, it,
The Source of Our Revolution
Egen more interesting was his comment
1s,t me feeling he had toward America
uu ally. We were sitting in the big
1Spe room at the Prime Minister'S Off
-irssidence in Downing Street, the room
a which he remarked, rather whimsi-
H. you Americans should be inter
"a in this room, because here American
szendence was made certain" lie meant
Z. the British policies here adopted pro
ssd the Revolution. when the time
peace comes" Lloyd George asserted,
believe that America viii have d useful
ls 10 play about the council board. !
ave always looked forward to American
sridpation, and believe that Ameri-
an influence viii be a good thing, which,
1r myself, shall welcome
The comment Of Sir William Robertson,
ne British chief of staf, was also in
,ru;tiye. Welcoming me as an American,
said with a twinkle in his eye: well,
re you still too proud % fight? 1t looks
ne as if you weren't quite as proud
'V as you were a little while ago
Then, quite seriously, he discussed the
Aashcan entrance. you will have to
ne in; you can't avoid it," he said, ex-
Hssng firm conviction; "and then your
1A'n viii be Just what ours was. You
ave the best material in the world to
axe soldiers"
Aen, quite suddenly, he said; 'Do you
2'vHenderson's Life Of Stonewall Jack
81 Henderson discovered the Civil War
10 TIE British army. He was a teacher
an. STAFF College when Haig and were
A'N together. think he must have
MN that some time we were to have
n rs that has come, and he saw IN the
NT Wsr the solution Of our problem
Csrnan, Have Men and Munitions
asksd the British general if he thought
i a var would 20 another year.
iii ! % not say it will; do not say 1t
'%t; II may" he responded But mo-
ssi h'er he extended this Scotch answer,
's'sding that the Germans have men
a''sa They have released enough by
vi "a enforced labor; as for munitions,
II qN piling them up, piling them up,
20 Is hands went above his head. My
~F'ssn was clear that Robertson be
md he war would 20 through 1918, IN
a'Guat
's1 be asked me about the BRUSH
II VA was Just back from week at
ii mat In Franco told him my i'm
II ''~'c, saying that it seemed 10 me like
y / bad heard Of the army Of Grant
ii %a bad army, not bad spirit" he
II "'iS'' with sober pride.
ii 40 your strategy. is it not on the
sskss
III <aing in that he said, tersely,
III returned 70 the subject of Stone
iii W. non and the Civil War.
III s3 % you think Of the spirit Of our
III dow did the feeling Of the army
iii - 9ou?' told him, what was IN
that il had sense of the APP
q victory, told him that the
'arit was in the French army. but
IL, Nn Of the army was, on the whole,
'T than the spirit Of the people of
ss 1saning the politicians.
Man find the same thing here"