The impatient people who ask : " What is America
doing to. win the war Y " should be soothed by the impressive statement in Tuesday's papers. Within seven weeks of declaring war, Ameries has -adopted a Selective -Draft law under which the President may call up-two million young men to• the colours. She has lent the Allies £150,000,000 and is- preparing -to-loud much more. ..She _has
sent destroyer flotillas to European waters, to fight the enemy submarines. She is sending a Regular division, a force of Marines, and nine regiments of Engineers to France, where the Americans, including volunteers already serving, will theu be one hundred thousand strong. She has despatched hundreds of doctors as the advance guard of a skilled medical corps of ten thousand surgeons, with many nurses, to co-operate with the Allied hospital service, which sorely needs help. She has recruited nearly half-a-million men for her Regular Army and National Guard, and is already training forty thousand cadets as future officers, to say nothing of six thousand airmen. In short, America has made an astonishingly good start in her preparations for war, and has done far more than any one, seven weeks ago, would have thought possible.
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