President Clings to Neutrality--Monroe Doctrine and Washington's Warning--German Crimes and German Victories--Cardinal Mercier's Letter--Military Operations--First Submarine Activities--The Lusitania Outrage--Exchange of Notes--United States Aroused--Role of Passive Onlooker Becomes Irksome--First Modification of Principles of Washington and Monroe--Our Destiny Looms Chapter V. Huns Sweeping Westward. Toward Shores of Atlantic--Spread Ruin and Devastation--Capitals of Civilization Alarmed--Activities of Spies--Apologies and Lies--German Arms Winning--Gain Time to Forge New Weapons--Few Victories for Allies--Roumania Crushed--Incident of U-53 Chapter VI. The Hour and The Man. A Beacon Among the Years--Trying Period for President Wilson--Germany Continues Dilatory Tactics--Peace Efforts Fail--All Honorable Means Exhausted--Patience Ceases to be a Virtue--Enemy Abandons All Subterfuges--Unrestricted Submarine Warfare--German Intrigues with Mexico--The Zimmerman Note--America Seizes the Sword--War is Declared--Pershing Goes Abroad--First Troops Sail--War Measures--War Operations Chapter VII. Negroes Respond to the Call. Swift and Unhalting Array--Few Permitted to Volunteer--Only National Guard Accepted--No New Units Formed--Selective Draft Their Opportunity--Partial Division of Guardsmen--Complete Division of Selectives--Many in Training--Enter Many Branches of Service--Negro Nurses Authorized--Negro Y.M.C.A. Workers--Negro War Correspondent--Negro Assistant to Secretary of War--Training Camp for Negro Officers First Time in Artillery--Complete Racial Segregation Chapter VIII. Recrudescence of South's Intolerance. Confronted by Racial Prejudice--Splendid Attitude of Negro Shamed It--Kept out of Navy--Only One Percent of Navy Personnel Negroes--Modified Marines Contemplated--Few Have Petty Officers' Grades--Separate Ships Proposed--Negro Efficiency in Navy--Material for "Black Ships"--Navy Opens Door to Negro Mechanics Chapter IX. Previous Wars in Which Negro Figured. Shot Heard Around the World--Crispus Attucks--Slave Leads Sons of Freedom--The Boston Massacre--Anniversary Kept for Years--William Nell, Historian--3,000 Negroes in Washington's Forces--A Stirring History--Negro Woman Soldier--Border Indian Wars--Negro Heroes Chapter X. From Lexington to Carrizal. Negro in War of 1812--Incident of the Chesapeake--Battle of Lake Erie--Perry's Fighters 10 Percent Negroes--Incident of the "Governor Tompkins"--Colonists Form Negro Regiments--Defenders of New Orleans--Andrew Jackson's Tribute--Negroes in Mexican and Civil Wars--In the Spanish-American War--Negroes in the Philippines--Heroes of Carrizal--General Butler's Tribute to Negroes--Wendell Phillips on Toussaint L'Ouverture Chapter XI. Hour of His Nation's Peril.