From the introductory: THE AUTHOR EXPLAINS. Were any excuse deemed necessary for this book, it would be enough to point to the likelihood of another war. No one will dispute that, notwithstanding complete victory was accorded us, the promised goal, permanent peace, was not attained. If, indeed, we are to judge by the demands of the Executive for greater armament, the danger of future war at once became from three to five times as great as before we took up arms to repel such danger. These demands were scaled down, but our ...
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From the introductory: THE AUTHOR EXPLAINS. Were any excuse deemed necessary for this book, it would be enough to point to the likelihood of another war. No one will dispute that, notwithstanding complete victory was accorded us, the promised goal, permanent peace, was not attained. If, indeed, we are to judge by the demands of the Executive for greater armament, the danger of future war at once became from three to five times as great as before we took up arms to repel such danger. These demands were scaled down, but our peace-time armament remained far heavier than before. Those of us who, a little while ago, were most confident in asserting that our war would end war are the same who, as soon as it was over, became most certain that we must be ready for the next one. But if the goal was not reached, our war could not have been in every respect the glorious thing we were told it was. Nor will any one dispute that many of the other promised benefits are not forthcoming. Nearly all of us seem to be willing to assume-or to permit our neighbors to assume, which comes to the same thing-that the "reasons" justifying our war are sound. But if such "reasons" are sound how is it that the results are so disappointing? The question cannot be dismissed simply by blaming Wilson, or the Republican party, or Lloyd George and Clemenceau. Did we not fight on the theory of the perfect wisdom and purity of Wilson and the Entente statesmen- and, for that matter, of ourselves, which includes the Republican party? If we have been betrayed, it is not sufficient merely to acknowledge the fact, but to determine how and why, in order that provision may be made against betrayal in the future. Nor is it sufficient to look for the secret in what happened at Paris. The great settlement-which, in the main, still stands-was the logical and almost certain result of what had gone before. Although it will be pleasant for all who served or sacrificed in the late war always to believe the best of it, no one who really sacrificed will wish for another such experience; nor would any one wish to continue believing well of recent events if such belief were to add to the danger of a repetition. Remember that for more than four years one side was permitted to speak and the other forced to remain silent. "The perspective that only time can give," some say, "is necessary before the true history of our war can be written, and before proper criticism can be made." But the end of the fighting saw a vast and complicated machine feverishly at work to crystallize into "history" the story of the war as it was told to us as propaganda in the heat thereof. If we wait a generation to face the whole truth we shall probably never face it....
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