CHAPTER LIV

. PEACE AT LAST

An Unfounded Rumor Starts Enormous Jubilation--Armistice Signed Four Days Later--Kaiser Abdicates and Flees to Holland--Cowardly Ruler Seeks Protection of Small Neutral Nation--Looking Into the Future--Cost of War to the Nations--Liberty Loans--Reconstruction Problems--McAdoo Resigns--American Ideals in the Old World

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