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Rh felt, as most of us did, how much finer was that call for volunteers and the wonderful response to it than any prompt, autocratic recourse to conscription could have been. 'We shall be in with you before long,' he said. 'We 're a good way off, and some of us don't know all about it yet, but we 're getting to know, and nothing can keep us out, unless you finish the job up quickly.' He thought that Americans who had not crossed the Atlantic since the war began did not realise the spirit in which England was meeting it, and to help them to that realisation he was anxious to secure as complete a set as possible of our recruiting posters for reproduction in his newspaper when he returned home; so we presently taxied on that quest to the Government Stationery Department. 'You do all the talk,' he urged, as we went in. 'If they hear my American accent they may suspect I am a German, and that will settle our chances.'

The Stationery Department was sympathetic, but referred us to the War Office, which could do nothing for us, but assured