7.  It will make us again a great sea-faring people.  It is this that
     has given Great Britain its long lead in the world;

     8.  Break up our feminized education—­make a boy a vigorous animal
     and make our education rest on a wholesome physical basis;

     9.  Bring men of a higher type into our political life.

     We need waking up and shaking up and invigorating as much as the
     Germans need taking down.

     There is no danger of “militarism” in any harmful sense among any
     English race or in any democracy.

     By George! all these things open an interesting outlook and series
     of tasks—­don’t they?

     My staff and I are asking everybody what the Americans can best do
     to help the cause along.  The views are not startling, but they are
     interesting.

     Jellicoe:  More ships, merchant ships, any kind of ships, and take
     over the patrol of the American side of the Atlantic and release
     the British cruisers there.

     Balfour:  American credits in the United States big enough to keep
     up the rate of exchange.

     Bonar Law:  Same thing.

The military men:  An expeditionary force, no matter how small, for the effect of the American Flag in Europe.  If one regiment marched through London and Paris and took the Flag to the front, that would be worth the winning of a battle.

Think of the vast increase of territory and power Great Britain will have—­her colonies drawn closer than ever, the German colonies, or most of them, taken over by her, Bagdad hers—­what a way Germany chose to lessen the British Empire!  And these gains of territory will be made, as most of her gains have been, not by any prearranged, set plan, but as by-products of action for some other purpose.  The only people who have made a deliberate plan to conquer the earth—­now living—­are the Germans.  And from first to last the additions to the British Empire have been made because she has been a first-class maritime power.

     And that’s the way she has made her trade and her money, too.

On top of this the President speculates about the danger of the white man losing his supremacy because a few million men get killed!  The truth is every country that is playing a big part in the war was overpopulated.  There will be a considerable productive loss because the killed men were, as a rule, the best men; but the white man’s control of the world hasn’t depended on any few million of males.  This speculation is far up in the clouds.  If Russia and Germany really be liberated from social and political and industrial autocracy, this liberation will bring into play far more power than all the men killed in the war could have had under the pre-war regime.  I observe this with every