July 1918 Proceedings-In "The War's Benefits," Midshipman F. F. Foster, U.S. Navy, writes, "[T]he present war is expected to bring: A benefit to the Navy, through popular realization of its importance and effectiveness, to the merchant marine from government help, to industries from the necessity of attaining maximum efficiency of production and the stimulus of man's inventive genius, a moral benefit to the people due to war's sobering and uplifting influence, and to the United States internationally, through increased prestige, wider activity in world politics, and the security of friends."
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