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The mid-war years were momentous times. Governing politicians in Paris and London were under great pressure from the press, the people and their parliaments to bring the war to a victorious close. The casualties from the battles of Gallipoli, the Somme and Verdun had been high and there was little prospect of victory in sight. The British prime minister, H. H. Asquith, resigned in early December 1916 and was succeeded by the "Welsh wizard", David Lloyd George. In France, premier Aristide Briand, along with General (later Marshal) Hubert Lyautey as Minister of Defence, were politically diminished and resigned in March 1917.
The United States was close to declaring war on Germany; American public opinion was growing increasingly incensed by a long succession of high-profile U-boat attacks upon civilian shipping, starting with the sinking of RMS Lusitania in 1915 and culminating in the torpedoing of seven American merchantmen in early 1917. The United States Congress finally declared war on Imperial Germany on 6 April 1917, but it would be more than a year before a suitable army could be raised, trained, and transported to France.

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＞The mid-war years were momentous times. Governing politicians in Paris and London were under great pressure from the press, the people and their parliaments to bring the war to a victorious close. The casualties from the battles of Gallipoli, the Somme and Verdun had been high and there was little prospect of victory in sight.
⇒戦争只中の時代は、重大な時期であった。パリやロンドンの政治家の閣僚たちは、戦争を勝って終わりに持っていくようにという報道機関、人々、議会（からの要求）の大きな圧力の下にいた。ガリポリ、ソンム、およびヴェルダンの闘争から出た犠牲者は多く、勝利の見込みもほとんど視界の中に見えていなかった。

＞The British prime minister, H. H. Asquith, resigned in early December 1916 and was succeeded by the "Welsh wizard", David Lloyd George. In France, premier Aristide Briand, along with General (later Marshal) Hubert Lyautey as Minister of Defence, were politically diminished and resigned in March 1917.
⇒英国の首相（H. H.アスキス）は、1916年12月上旬に職を辞して、「ウェールズの魔術師」ことデイヴィッド・ロイド・ジョージに受け継がれた。フランスでは、首相のアリスティド・ブリアンが、防御担当大臣としてのユベール・リョーテ将軍（後に元帥）とともに、1917年3月に政治的信望を失って、辞職した。

＞The United States was close to declaring war on Germany; American public opinion was growing increasingly incensed by a long succession of high-profile U-boat attacks upon civilian shipping, starting with the sinking of RMS Lusitania in 1915 and culminating in the torpedoing of seven American merchantmen in early 1917. The United States Congress finally declared war on Imperial Germany on 6 April 1917, but it would be more than a year before a suitable army could be raised, trained, and transported to France.
⇒アメリカ合衆国は、ドイツに宣戦布告する寸前であった。民間の船舶に対する高圧的なＵボートの攻撃が長く続くことによってアメリカ世論の激怒がますます増大していた。それは、1915年にRMS（英国郵船）ルシタニア号を沈めたことから始まって、1917年前半に7隻の米国商船を魚雷攻撃するに至って頂点に達していた。アメリカ合衆国議会はついに、1917年4月6日にドイツ帝国に宣戦布告した。しかし、適当な方面軍を立ち上げ、訓練し、フランスへ輸送することができるまでには1年以上かかりそうな状況であった。

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