When the German offensive tore into the Allied lines on 21 March, even more drastic measures were required. Turning the tables on Wilson, it was now Lloyd George who, over the head of the laggardly President, appealed directly to the American public. Wilson was so incensed that he even considered having the British ambassador recalled. ‘I fear,’ he expostulated on one occasion, ‘I will come out of the war hating [the] English.’19 But the American military authorities responded. In the month of May, 250,000 men were moved, 1.788 million men in all between February and November 1918, at least
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