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STARTING POINT. "It was in those intolerable days of 1917 when Russia had fallen away and America seemed perilously unready; when German intrigue helped by treachery behind the allied lines in France, England and Italy was winning the war for Germany; intolerable to those of soldier blood whose years put them beyond the dead line of enlistment requirements and who could do nothing more than work and earn and give over here.
I was haunted interminably by the suffering of the women of France whose men had died on the field of honor -- wasted suffering if, in the end, the German won. I knew the women would fight against any -- is there a stronger adjective of horror now than _Germanic_ odds? How could these widowed women, or even the dead bear it -- and in a flash "The White Battalion" came.