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Updated: July 5, 2025
As the old steamer settled into her fourteen-knot gait, the submarines ceased to be of more than conversational concern, and I began to ask myself, "What does it all mean to us, this bloody sacrifice of world war, to us, strong, rich, peaceful, confident Americans?"
When the old fourteen-knot steamer finally dropped anchor off quarantine in New York Harbor and the reporters came on board with the dust of America on their shoes, the roar of America in their voices, I was surer than ever that this greatest of world wars meant a vast deal more to us than trade or charity or politics, which is what we seem to be making of it for the most part.
A dozen of its vessels, making the service between Yokohama and London, are fourteen-knot ships. These facts should be considered by every American complacently believing that the traffic of the countries and islands washed by the Pacific is open to American enterprise whenever we bid for it.
"Mutiny, by Jove!" murmured the Naval officer. He did not speak excitedly, but with a certain grim dryness. "Catch up with them as soon as you can, Captain Benson." "There they go, heading away from us," muttered Captain Jack. "From her present performance she doesn't look to be over a fourteen-knot boat," declared Ennerling. "You won't be long in running alongside." "What do you make out, sir?"
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