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Show WAR PROPHECY COMES TRUE Russian Banker's Prediction Seven Years Ago Provided for Famino and the Bankruptcy of Nations. Only seven years ago M. Bloch, the great Russian backer, wrote : "That Is the future of war not fighting, but famine; not the slaying of men, but the bankruptcy of nations, and the breaking up of the' whole social organization or-ganization of the nations." The future of war, as written about by M. Bloch seven years ago, Is the present of war today, observes Vernon Ver-non Kellogg In the Atlantic. Not that fighting and the slaying of men are lessened. Only the Napoleonic and the Thirty Years' wars approach today's to-day's war In the terrible losses of human hu-man life ; and too great a drnin on the human life of any one or several of the nations engaged may be the deciding de-ciding factor in the war's conclusion. But on the whole, and as matters stand today, that part of M. Bloch's prophecy referring to the predominant Influence of the food problem In modern war Is thoroughly borne out by the facts. Despite the fearful and fatal struggling strug-gling of an incredible number of men, consuming inconceivable quantities of munitions, and using such amazing methods of fighting as are beyond even the fantastic imaginings of the ro-. mancers of a decade ago, the national and international phases of the food) and general economic problem are the predominant features of the war situation sit-uation today. |