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[The United States is like] a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

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Reproduced in The Second World War, Vol III, The Grand Alliance, 1950, Cassell & Co Ltd, p. 540

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