It is hard to realize that a big war is inevitable, but it looks like it. It was staved off, in spite of Germany’s perfidy, during the Balkan troubles. If it has to come now, just imagine what it is going to mean! It will be the bloodiest affair the world has ever seen a war in the air, a war under the sea as well as on it, and carried out with the most effective man-slaughtering machines ever used in battle. – Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928)