Free People, Free Markets

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George Melloan. Free People, Free Markets

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Preface

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Wrote the Journal: “It is impossible to escape the conclusion that those in charge of the military and naval departments are temperamentally unfitted for their task . . . Mr. Daniels is typical of the handicap a country governed by popular politics carries into a war. He can regard the Navy as a high school for the enlisted man, as a floating branch of the YMCA, as a militant temperance machine, as a carrier of mails or even of cargo. But he cannot regard it as a fighting machine trained to the minute.”

On the whole, however, the American expeditionary force acquitted itself well and was sufficiently effective to tip the balance toward a Triple Entente victory, if the devastation and loss of so many young men could be called a victory for anyone.

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