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Show 'II OPIfJIDNS ON.WflR'S EID Londoners Speculating on Whether It Is Due in 1919 or 1920. I Ww York nmes-Ohu.io Vnhiino Cat'!,. IONOON. Soit. I'-Two currents of op mum in toward to the tiTiniiuttum of the war J-trouly nurkoJ hero, hut ruu in i"1 anu direction, so far a? : wotoruuis oiultni is concerned. Where thov lUifer is in respect to the date at i which that desirably ciMMimma t ion can r.t reached. Ouo of these vow: sees the war end next year. The other riices the d.ato in U'JO, Argument turns i-.iu'lh' on t w o I'omt s - w lift her t. real Hnuau 's military effort can ho mum-r.-mied and strengthened duriuj: the iHhs that still permit of campaign- this year, and whether .-Untriea ' r ea t c en t r t h u 1 1 o n of t h e p a s t f e w ifonths can be carried on m undunin-ihed undunin-ihed voUimo during the fall and winter. tiixen these two factors, the protaiT onists of ictory next year he-I'eve he-I'eve t iat the enemv can he mi ham-tiiered ham-tiiered this year that hi chances of a succesful defeie in the :ri:ic and Mtuimer of 110, when America's weight will tell iuitneasiir- . jiMv, will ha e been reduced to the rrinixum. lion oral Peyton March "s predictions of an. earlv victory have ci on reut cu-ouraenient to the holders of the more optimistic of these two views here, hut they are not accepted without question by others, who hold that it is possible to nnderetiinate the enemy '5 powers of resistance, and equally possi-hie possi-hie to underestimate the difficulties which st'U confront the allies, not only in a military ense. but in econoimc and political domains. ueneraUy speaking, t he soldiers are Te chief exponents of what may hoi called a continued hammering policy, with all that it implies n respcet to the application of mau-power to purely mil: tan- purpores. Also" vising a general classification, it is the fivilian element which questions ques-tions hother orious mistakes niiht rot he made by overlooking the fact that the victory is to be won not only bv martial actWities of men at the front, but by the quality and character or the nations at the hack of the frout. In England it is particularly a question of the utilization of man-power, and is attaining serious dimensions. Various applications designed to remove some of the roughest problems which tfrow out of this question have been made to America, hut in some quarters here it is held that these appeals omit consideration consid-eration of the fact that the American government has already demonstrated mo-i convincingly its determination to rjf everv available man in the field at .Vie earliest possible moment. That the y frited states will srive without stint and without counting is taken as axiomatic axio-matic here. ' Tt is equally agreed that Great Brit y- ain is in no sense wjia fever seeking to ' .diminish her efforts, and. indeed, is tk'vincr to increase them. The eontnt-veV?v eontnt-veV?v turns onlv on the point as to which is the method by which the common com-mon cause can he best served. |