Dr. Meusse put in, “We are sinking ships now at a rate we never reached until the best months of 1917. Do you know that?” “I know that,” said Captain Henry. “And as I said to Ernst the other day, that’s when we came in.” The silence on the terrace lasted a long time. Then Wolf Stöller said, “And that is the world tragedy that must not occur now, Victor—Germany and America, the two great anti-Bolshevik powers, going to war. The only victor will be Stalin.”
