me 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 autocr