Self-Measured Super Suits Within a few days of your order entering Lion Buildings, Huddersfield, your suit will be Our highest price - Best This Box of 120 New Patterns Ask for special selection suited Legal guarantee enclosed, signed by the Proprietor, 44/ Suit Lengths by Return Post. All our cloths are thoroughly shrunk and ready 3 yards Suit Length Solid Hudders- 3 yards Guaranteed Reliable Wool 8/- Cloth 70 Lion Buildings, Groves & Lindley, Exporters, Huddersfield, Eng. You may hand "The Review of Reviews" in at any Post Office, without any address or wrapper, and it will be forwarded FREE OF CHARGE to some ship, camp, trench or hospital, where it will be appreciated. When writing to Advertisers please mention "The Review of Reviews." In 1896. F ROM one point of view Europe contemplates the United States of America as having realised the ideal towards which the Rescript of the Tsar appears ultimately to point. On the other hand, Europe perceives the United States devoting themselves to a war of liberation, which, according to the familiar precedent, appeared to develop into a war of conquest; while simultaneously the American Producer, already supreme in the supply of produce of the soil, suddenly reveals himself as a formidable rival in all manner of manufactured goods. This last factor in the problem, although regarded (as Count Goluchowsky publicly declared), with consternation and alarm, counts nevertheless as a very valuable element in the forces making for peace and disarmament. It brings home to the average man the enormous advantages in industrial competition which are enjoyed by a nation that is free to devote the whole of its inventive capacity to the arts of production, and to pass the whole of its youth into the factory and the mill, without previously taking tithe of their years in the heavy corvée of the barracks. Thus at the same time that the United States of America afford the disunited States of Europe the spectacle of a great nation, orderly and free, which has grown up to greatness without any more than a mere symbol of an army, the menacing ascendency of the American producer in the markets of the world tends to drive the lesson home that the ways of militarism are the ways of death. In the long run it may be found that the phenomenal increase of American exports in the year 1898 will do more to induce the acceptance of the Russian Emperor's proposals than all the appeals of the moralists and all the arguments of the philanthropists. "The United States of Europe," 1899. William T. Stead 0000חחחחחחח The fall of Bagdad and the further advances by British and Russian armies in Asia Minor gives special point to our map. THE REVIEW Progress! OF REVIEWS THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. LONDON, May 1, 1917. Glorious news continues to come to hand from far and near. Last month the Russian Revolution, this month America! And the news from the Western front is full of hope. The star of Peace is becoming more distinct. The flag of the greatest democratic country of the world flies to-day side by side with the flags of the Allied nations. The whole English-speaking world is at war for the causes of liberty and freedom-causes which it has long stood for, and which are the secret of its growth and position to-day. United we stand against "the natural foe to liberty." We must, as recorder, Mr. Wilson's state briefly, though the Task. facts are history now, how America came in. Mr. Wilson's ways had ofttimes baffled many on this side, and were so enigmatic that stalwart Americans themselves were uneasy up to the time of his speech. We have again and again called attention to the great difficulties with which, as President, Mr. Wilson had to contend, and the great necessity for walking carefully and preparing the country for the step taken this last month. To take such step without the mass of the people behind him might well have been fatal. As it is, all forces are united and every effort is being made to utilise the enormous resources of the United States in men, money, munitions, shipping and food to the uttermost. Shortly after eight o'clock on the evening of Monday, April 2nd, the President drove up to the Capitol in Washington escorted by cavalry. In an hour all doubt was over. In a speech 66 of tremendous power, wasting no words. in apology or excuse, the President showed how peace had been made impossible by the universal campaign of sea-murder. There is one choice we cannot make and we are incapable of making, we will not choose the path of submission." He dwelt on the system of espionage and intrigue pursued by Germany in America even before the war, and while disclaiming all purpose of vengeance against the German people, he declared that international peace is irreconcilable with the present Hohenzollern system; whilst the system of Prussian Statecraft continues there can be no assured safety for the democratic countries of the world. The German Government "has thrown aside all considerations of humanity and right and is running amok." Solemnly Mr. Wilson called upon Congress to accept a state of war, to wage it with the utmost power of the United States in practical cooperation with the Allies, and to head a League of Honour against tyrannous force. War. The effect of the speech was overwhelming, not merely in Congress but throughout the country. The House voted for war by 373 to 50, and the Senate by unanimous consent went into continuous session to defeat obstruction, and voted for war, 82 to 6. In the afternoon of Friday, April 6th, President Wilson signed the joint resolution of Congress and issued a proclamation to all the citizens of the United States declaring the existence of a state of war with Germany, and setting forth the conditions. The decision of the United States to espouse the cause of liberty and justice has been hailed with enthusiasm throughout the Allied nations. Messages of greeting from the Sovereigns, Premiers, Parliaments and leading Ministers have been showered on President Wilson. Both France and England have sent missions, headed by Mr. Balfour for England and M. Viviani and Marshal Joffre for France, to confer with the United States Government and discuss the amalgamation of all forces in order to win the war, and also to consider the efforts which will be made to maintain peace in the years to come. Following directly on the declaration of war came the seizure of German ships in American harbours-ships which represent upwards of half a million of tonnage. For the industrial mobilisation of the country 32,000 companies have placed themselves under Government control. A War Finance Bill of £1,400,000,000 hás been passed. The issue of a £1,000,000,000 loan was at once authorised, £600,000,000 of which is to go to the Allies if the President so decides. A loan of £40,000,000 has already been made to Great Britain. A system of conscription has been adopted, and 500,000 men are to be added immediately to the Regular Army and the National Guard; the naval establishments and the Marines are to be doubled. Aiding the Allies. Labour has pledged itself against strikes and disturbances during the war. Although before long America may be represented at the Front by a contingent, the greatest help which she can afford the Allies at the moment is by bringing the utmost resources of her material energy and invention to the fight against the submarines, by financial help, and the sending of foodstuffs to the Allies. In the admirably direct and purposeful appeal which Mr. Wilson has addressed to his fellowcountrymen he appeals especially to the farming community, upon whom he declares depends the fate of the war, and, indeed, the fate of the nations, "without abundant food alike for the armies and the peoples now at war, the whole enterprise upon which we have embarked would break down and fail"; to the shipbuilders he suggests "that life and the war depend on them." Food and war supplies must be transported "no matter how many ships are sent to the bottom." "The industrial forces of the country, men and women alike, will be a great international service army-a notable, honoured host, engaged in the service of the nation and the world, the efficient friends and saviours of free men everywhere." It is a grand programme, full of action with nothing nervous or hesitating about it. Still Further Ruptures. The declaration of a state of war with Germany was speedily followed by the rupture of diplomatic relations with Austria and the seizure of all Austrian vessels in American ports-representing a total tonnage of 67,000. Cuba has now declared war on Germany. Brazil, Bolivia and Guatemala have broken off diplomatic relations, and Panama has declared her resolve to stand in with the United States for the defence of the Canal. The Argentine Government has handed to the American Ambassador a Note, recognising the justice of the action of the United States, and stigmatising the German submarine campaign as a violation of the principles of humanity. So, gradually, the world unites in condemning the deeds and actions of the Central Powers. |