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One of the war's great fallacies, says Taylor, is the idea that time works for the Allies. It does not do so in a military sense. It does not do so in the minds of Europe's conquered people. "It is not enough to say 'all in good time,' " he warns. "Time runs out. The great resources of the United States, the abundant strength of the Allied cause, cannot rely on success through some ultimate victory. For if it takes too long, it will not be a victory at all. The process of economic, human, and spiritual liquidation, pressing on disillusioned people from Helsinki to Gibraltar . . . will of itself create the defeat of peace. The thoughts, the determination of countless democratic men and women are delayed from our awful task at hand by the overevaluation of our ultimate strength. . . . Either we hurry, either we do God's task with speed, or there is no end to war."