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Mobilizing for France The 1917 Allied Munitions and Shipping Crisis
Chapter XXI to XXII describe Allied munitions strain and the Interallied munitions board approving increases in French British capacity while the U.S. pledges raw materials and troops. The Twenty sixth division arrives near Neufchateau as Russia collapses and Britain wins at Cambrai. The Paris talks form a supreme war council to coordinate future operations amidst shipping shortages.
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Interallied Munitions Board
Tasker A1. Buss
War Department General ‘Staff
Baker
France
Joffre
Balfour
United States
Rothing
Regular Army
National Guard
Twenty-sixth Divsion
Clarence Edwards
Neufchhateau
Truth
Onlselves
Riga
Tyeren Y
Libevis
Lenin
Trotzky
Russia
Germmany
Ams
Austria
Europe
America
Belgium
Germany
Persis
Oficer
Byng
Third Army
Flesquieres
Col
M. [Ouse
Lranece
W. 8. Denson
Gen. Tasker H. Bliss
Oscar T. Crosby
Treasury Department
Vance McCormick
War Trade Board
Bainbridge Colby
Shipping Board
Alonzo. Taylor
Thomas N. Perkins
War Industries
Paul Cravath
Paris
War Department
Cambrai
von Marwitz
Eleventh Regiment of Engineers
Gauzacourt
War Council
Supreme War Council
Versailles
Douse
General Bliss
M. Clemenceau
Italy
Natlon
Planders
Chier
Jerusalem
Jaffa
Piave
Egomound
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Clevenceau
Farlons