ABSTRACT
During June and July 1918, despite occasional flurries of nervousness, Allied Governments began slowly reaching the firm conclusion that the continuous series of German offensives would not only force no decision but could ultimately prove dangerously exhausting to the Germans’ own fighting- and will-power. The street-procession from Hyde Park, on this occasion, included thousands of discharged soldiers, smart women, Dominion soldiers, men of the Baltic and the Stock Exchanges, and members of the British Empire Union, all marching to the patriotic strains of several bands. Meanwhile, in Britain, as it became increasingly certain that Germany was going down to irretrievable defeat, the “Fight to a Finish” school, headed by Northcliffe and Bottomley, tried hard to commit the nation to refuse all parley with Germany till Berlin had been reached and occupied by Allied troops.
