Only once or twice in history has the world witnessed such a spectacle of greatness at tension. It is not that factories are busy on shells. It is that everything spiritual in a race touched with genius has been mobilized. Fineness of feeling, the graces of the intellect, clarity of thought, all the playful tender elements of worthy living are burning with a steady light.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

The author was enabled to visit Verdun and the peasant district, and to obtain access to the German diaries through J. J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France; Frank H. Simonds, editor of the New York Tribune, and Theodore Roosevelt, by whose courtesy the success of the three months' visit was assured. On arrival in France the courtesy was continued by Emile Hovelaque, Madame Saint-René Taillandier, Judge Walter Berry, Mrs. Charles Prince, Leon Mirman, Prefet de Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of War.

CONTENTS

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To France on July 14th[v]
SECTION I
AMERICANS WHO HELPED
I. The Two Americas[3]
II.The American Ambulance Hospital[14]
III.The Ford Car and Its Drivers[34]
IV.The Americans at Verdun[55]
V."Friends of France"[72]
VI.The Saving Remnant[83]
SECTION II
WHY SOME AMERICANS ARE NEUTRAL
I. Neutrality: An Interpretation of the Middle West[93]
II.Social Workers and the War[105]
III.Forgetting the American Tradition[116]
IV.Cosmopolitanism[129]
V.The Hyphenates[142]
VI.The Remedy[151]
SECTION III
THE GERMANS THAT ROSE FROM THE DEAD
I. Lord Bryce on German Methods[159]
II.Some German War Diaries[170]
III.More Diaries[186]
IV.The Boomerang[196]
SECTION IV
THE PEASANTS
I. The Lost Villages[211]
II.The Homeless[221]
III."Mon Gamin"[226]
IV.The Mayor on the Hilltop[228]
V.The Little Corporal[240]
VI.The Good Curé[244]
VII.The Three-Year-Old Witness[257]
VIII.Mirman and "Mes Enfants"[261]
IX.An Appeal to the Smaller American Communities[274]
X.The Evidence[289]
XI.Sister Julie[294]
XII.Sister Julie—Continued[312]
Addendum[321]
APPENDIX
I. To the Reader[329]
II.To Neutral Critics[333]