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Rh constructive critics, including preeminently Colonel Roosevelt, who worked to get wrong conditions changed and to contribute to the present result, which to-day is the salvation of the cause We fight for. For it to have done anything else would have been faithlessness to its trust."

When at last the stirring-up of the Administration had borne fruit and American troops were in France and on the way in considerable, though disappointing, numbers, Colonel Roosevelt slowed down his bombardment of the Washington authorities. His campaign had produced results. He was right in doing all he could to speed up war preparations, and he stood his ground in the face of widespread censure in the way he always did. [Hostile newspapers had demanded that the Postmaster-General suppress the circulation of the Roosevelt articles; indeed, a postoffice inspector had visited Kansas City with the idea of denying The Star admission to the mails, but the Administration made no further move in this direction

Even when the turning of the tide had set in, Roosevelt's demand was for men, more men, and then more men for France. He would have in all six or seven million men in training, and four million American soldiers in France in the spring of 1919. In the first article he sent after the news of Quentin's death, he said:

Now and always afterwards we of this country will walk with our heads high because of the men who face death and wounds, and so many of whom have given their lives for