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Show AMERICAN SPIRIT RELIED ON TO WIN. In the light ot succeeding events It Is Interesting to recall the confidence with which the United States Food Administrator lowed the gloomy out-look out-look In July of 1017. when this country coun-try bad been In tho war for less than four months and the Oermans were steadily sending the western front nearer and nearer to Perls. MEen though the situation In Eu ropo niny be gloomy t today," be, declared de-clared In a public statement, "no American who bos knowledge of the results already obtained In every direction di-rection need havo ono atom of fear that democracy will not defend Itself in these United States." |
