When you have heard the guns roar and watched horizons flame with fury
and seen men go to their death smiling and unafraid; when the pitiless
panorama of carnage has passed before you in terms of terror and
tragedy, you realise that there is something human as well as economic
in the relentless Thing called War.
It means that just as there was no compromise with dishonour in the
approach to the Super-Struggle for which nations are pouring out their
youth and fortune, so will there be no flinching in that coming contest
for commercial mastery--the bloodless aftermath of History's deadliest
and costliest war.
We have reached a place in the World Trade Sun. Unless we are ready to
hold it we will slip into the Shadow.
We must prepare.
I. F. M.
_CONTENTS_
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I. THE COMING WAR 15
II. ENGLAND AWAKE 40
III. AMERICAN BUSINESS IN FRANCE 71
IV. THE NEW FRANCE 98
V. SAVING FOR VICTORY 120
VI. THE PRICE OF GLORY 164
VII. THE MAN LLOYD GEORGE 210
VIII. FROM PEDLAR TO PREMIER 258
THE WAR AFTER THE WAR
I--_The Coming War_
While the guns roar from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, and the
greatest armed host that history has ever known is still locked in a
life-and-death struggle on a dozen fronts, another war, more potent and
permanent perhaps than the one which now engulfs Europe, lurks beyond
the distant horizon of peace.
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