Chapter VI. The Hour and The Man.

A Beacon Among the Years--Trying Period for President Wilson--Germany Continues Dilatory Tactics--Peace Efforts Fail--All Honorable Means Exhausted--Patience Ceases to be a Virtue--Enemy Abandons All Subterfuges--Unrestricted Submarine Warfare--German Intrigues with Mexico--The Zimmerman Note--America Seizes the Sword--War is Declared--Pershing Goes Abroad--First Troops Sail--War Measures--War Operations