from you to "make the world safe for democracy."

I also have the hope that the stories of personal experience will make
real to you some of the men whose bodies have been for three years part
of that human rampart that has kept your homes from desolation, and
your daughters from violation, and that you will speed in sending them
succor as though the barrier had broken and the bestial Hun were even
now, with lust dominant, smashing at your own door.


[1] _Boys Own Paper_.

[2] "Ben" was the living-room of a Scotch cottage where only intimate
friends were admitted. Ian Maclaren says of a very good man: "He was
far ben wi God."




PART I

"THE CALL TO ARMS"




CHAPTER I

THE CALL REACHES SOME FAR-OUT AUSTRALIANS