Mohave County miner., 1917-04-28
THANKS WILSON
! AND THE PRESS

! hAOA1ANG4 O4N5 ApIl Gull q
statement to the American Press to-
day Rene Viviani, Frances vice-pre-
mier and head of the war mission,
said the cooperation of the United
States would mean not only a mill
tary victory, which already was assur-
ed, but victory of morality and right.
Expressing deep gratitude for the en-
thusiastic reception given his mission
here, NJ Vivian said he realized it
was mot to us, but our beloved and
heroic France"
NJ. Viviani's statement to the Wash
ington correspondents follows:
81 promised to receive you after
having reserved, as elementary cour-
tesy required, my first communication
solely for the president. l have just
had the honor, which l shared with
the other members of the mission, of
being received by him. 1 am indeed
happy to have been chosen to present
the greetings of the French republic
to the illustrious man whose name is
in every French mouth today, whose
Incompatible message is at this very
hour being read and commented upon
in all our schools as the most perfect
character of human rights, and which
so fully expresses the virtues of your
race-long-suffering patience before
appealing to force, and force to av-
enge that long-suffering patience
when there can be no other means.
"Since you are here to listen to me,
l ask you to repeat a thousand-fold the |
of our deep gratitude for
the enthusiastic reception the Ameri-
can people has granted US in Wash \
ington! 1t is not to US, but to our
beloved and heroic France that recep-
ton was accorded. We were proud to
be her children in those unforgettable
when we read in the radiance
of the faces we saw the noble sincerity /
of your hearts. And desire to thank
also the press of the United States,
by you.
81 fully realize the ardent and dis
help you have given by your
tireless propaganda in the cause of
right. l know your action has been
Gentlemen, thank you. J.
eve have come to this land to sa-
lutte the American people and its gov
eminent, to call to fresh vigor our life
long friendship, sweet and cordial in
the ordinary course of our lives, and
which these tragic hours have raised
to all the ardor of brotherly Iowa
brotherly love which, in these last
years of suffering, has multiplied its
most touching expressions-you have
given help, not only in treasure, in
every act of kindness and good will;
for US your children have shed their
blood, and the names of your sacred
dead are inscribed forever in our
hearts. And it was with a full know
ledge of the meaning of what you did
that you acted. Your inexhaustible
was not the charity of the
fortunate to the distressed; it was an
of your conscience, a rea-
soned approval of your judgment.
"Your fellow countrymen knew that
lnder the savage assault of a nation
Of prey which has made of war, to
quote a famous saying, its national
industry, we were upholding, with our
allies, faithful and vail
ant to the death, with all those who
ire fighting shoulder to shoulder with
Is on the firing line, the sons of in
lomitable England, struggle for the
violated rights of man, for the demo-
,ratic spirit which the forces of auto
,racy were attemptingfi to crush
the world. We are ready
10 carry that struggle on to the end.
"And now, as President Wilson has
said, the republic of the United States
rises in its strength as a champion of
right, and rallies to the side of France
and her allies. Only our descendants
when time has removed them sufici-
emily far from present events, will be ,
able to measure the full significance,