The Sentinel=record., 1917-04-13
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flow First and foremost We trust for an earlier victory, and secondly, for a better understanding of the United States by the United States. and this as see it is the largest constructive political need of the world. We come in answer only 10 the nigh call of duty and not for any material reward not for territory. not for indemnity or conquest, not for anything save the duty to succor democracy when it is desperately assailed. We come only for the ideal, that is, the republic.
 Mir. LloydGeorge replied, saying in rart:
 'l am in the position, in the bappy rositon of being, l think, the first prime minister of the crown who, epeakiug on behalf of the people of his country, could salute the Ameri- can nation as comrades in arms. I am glad not only because of the stupen- oou5 resources which this great nation wiI bring to the succor of the allies, but l rejoice as a democrat that the advent O. the United States into this war gives the final stamp to the char acter Of the conflict as struggle against military autocracy throughout the world That was the note that rang through the great deltyerance of President Wilson's. It has been in } our rcaOunding words, sir.
 "The United States Of America. of a noble tradition, never broken, never have engaged in war except for lib- erty. This is the greatest struggle for liberty that they ever have embarked upon I am not at all surprised when one reaollecls the wars of the past tina America took it's time to make up its mind about the character Of this struae in Europe Most of the great wars in the past were waged for dy- nas.ic aggrandizement and for con- quest. 1t is no wonder that when this great war started there were some elements of suspicion still lurking in the minds of the people of the United States of America, that there were many who thought ptrhaps that the knes were a their old tricks. I think they somewhat perhaps. regarded 1t as in the nature of a conspiracy of monarChial swashbucklers. That the United States of America has made mp it's mlnd finally makes it abundantly clear to the world that this is no strug gle of that character but q great fight for human liberty.
 They naturally did not know ot first what we had endured in Europe for years from this military caste Prussia is not a democacy. The kaiser for years promises that it will be democracy; Prussia was not state. Prussia was an army. It had it's great institutions, it's great universities. It had developed its science. All these were subordinate to the one great pre- dominant purpose of an all couquering army to enslaye the world. The army was the spear point of Prussia--the rest was the gifted haft
 That is what we had to deal with in this old outworn country. It was an army that in recent times had wag- ed three wars. all of conquest, and the incessant tramp of its legions the streets of Prussia, on the parade ground of Prussia, had gone 10 the Prussian head
 The kaiser when he witnessed it on grand scale at his reviews got drunk with the sound of it. He deliv- cred the law to the world as new pastor on Sinai, delivering the law from thunder clouds, But make no mistake Europe was uneasy. Eu- rope was half intimidated, Europe was anxious Europe was apprehen- siye IL knew the whole time what it meant What we did not know, of course, was the moment when it would come.
 This is the menace. This is the oppression from which Europe has suffered for fifty years. It saps the benefits and the equities of all states, which ought to have been devoted and concentrated on the we'll being of their peoples. They had 10 take into account this menace. which was their constant preoccupation as cloud ready to burst over the land.
 "The most characteristic of all Prussian institutions is the Hinden- burg line. A Hindenburg line is a line drawn on territories of other people, warning them that the inhabil- ants of those territories shall not cross if at peril of their lives That line has been thrown across Europe for 50 years, in many lands
 But Europe, after enduring this for generations. made up its mind at last that the Hindenburg line must he drawn along the legitimate front iers of Germany.
 "The lIindenburg line was drawn along the shores of America and Americans were told they must not
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