We are already past the middle of August. Not a
long period of good campaigning weather remains to us this season. If every advantage is to be extracted from every " push," the Army and Navy must work together in combined action as they have never worked before ; the Cabinet and every Department of State must concentrate their attention on helping the offensive forward as they have never done before ; they must put away from them every dis- tracting thought, and eschew every distracting act, and in good, loyal, and cheerful fellowship strike together- in a unison of effort that will make every previous blow struck seem light by comparison. The Belgian coast should be our true objective. The Germans them- selves have admitted that thence our airmen could annihilate their "industrial basin." The time has come for an intensive cultiva- tion of the war, and if necessary for greater naval sacrifices. Time has become an essential element in the issue between com- plete success and indecisive results.
