Transcriber's Note:
This page emulates the original booklet with large font and small pages. Original spellings have been kept.
GETTING TOGETHER
BY
IAN HAY
Author of "The First Hundred Thousand,"
"A Safety Match," etc.
| Garden City | Boston |
| DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY |
| 1917 | |
Copyright, 1917, by
Ian Hay Beith
Contents
CHAPTER ONE
For several months it has been the pleasant duty of the writer of thefollowing deliverance to travel around the United States, lecturingupon sundry War topics to indulgent American audiences. No one—leastof all a parochial Briton—can engage upon such an enterprise for longwithout beginning to realize and admire the average American's amazinginstinct for public affairs, and the quickness and vitality with whichhe fastens on and investigates every topic of live interest.
Naturally, the overshadowing subject of discussion to-day is the War,and all the appurtenances thereof. The opening question is always thesame. It lies about your path by day in the form of a newspaper man,or about your bed by night in the form of telephone call, and issimply:
"When is the War going to end?"
(One is glad to note that no one ever asks how it is going to end:that seems to be settled.)
The simplest way of answering this question is to inform yourinquisitor that so far as Great Britain is concerned the War has onlyjust begun—began, in fact, on the first of July, 1916; when theBritish Army, equipped at last, after stupendous exertions, for agrand and prolonged offensive, went over the parapet, shoulder toshoulder