Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-29
Arrival Of Allied Missions IN
America One Of Biggest
Events in Nations History.
SUBMARINE WARFARE
NOW GENUINE MENACE
Germans, Desite Mighty Attacks On
West Front, Are Unable
to Gain.
TEUTON LOSSES ARE TERRIBLE
Kaiser's Government Faces Its
Greatest Internal Crisis-Germany
May Strike at Russia-0ther
Neutrals May Enter War.
TEUTON LOSSES ARE TERRIBLE
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

When the thunderS of war have be-
come but faint echoes. when the fury of
the piercing lightning which has sought
to destroy life and fundamental institu-
tons has dimmed to mere recollection,
when tempestuous winds now whipping
madly to wipe out national hearth
stones nave become as gentle spring
time gusts waiting spirit of love
throughout the world, we shall see en-
blazoned upon the battiements of
democracy the story of the present
moment.
And among the few really great there
will be three names.
Upon the foundations of true brother
hood of man, world right, world justice,
world humanity, new stones are being
laid to form the bulwark of nations.
They are POWER tempered with con-
sideration; DEMOCRACY, representa-
tive of the indestructible will of all
peoples: UNDERSTANDING of enlight-
ened nations: JOY of accomplishment;
FELLOWSHIP, which shall bind. and
LOVE, which shall stir to ennobling
things The keystone shall be PEACE
EVERLASTING.
Writ large among the builders will be
the names of three.
When the world shall have emerged
from the maelstrom and eyes shall have
turned backward that praise be given
where the proper need of praise is due,
Great Britain will look to figure,
which, for more than a decade, has
stood predominant in the councils of the
great. She will look at one who with
the gentleness of a child has been
courageous as lion. She will be stand
ing among the great figures of the war
one whose counsel helped steer the ma
ton through treacherous shoals. one
whose tact, whose diplomacy has firmly
nodded and made indestructible the
ties binding the great entente battling
so firmly for a noble cause England
will then, as she does today, look TO
Arthur j. Balfour.
France will turn TO one who will be
her idol for all times. One who with
fortitude, holiness, but with modesty,
went about a task of saving nation
from blood lust, ravishment and ex-
tinction beneath the heels of a gigantic
military juggernaut. She ever will wor-
ship at the shrine of an Inspiring figure
who raised wall of tremendous
strength before an eager enemy, forever
frustrating keenest hopes; a figure who
with power, precision and doggedness
erased the specter of defeat and turned
the tide which shall have swelled into
victory. France ever will worship Gen.
Joffre.
And while the valiant armies under
the tri-color have been fighting the
battles of freedom, of democracy, an
other figure has been striving for the
victories behind the lines which are so
completely essential to the vanquish-
ment of the foe in front. He has labor
ed necessarily and effectively. He is
Frances truest disciple of the doctrines
which have inspired the world to COM
bat the evil tide of Prussian influence.
He is Rene Niyiani.
That America of Washington. that
America of Lincoln. that America which
energies from the role of "a mighty ra-
ton to a typical world power ever
ready to battle for humanity, that ma
ton whose heart beats are quickened
by their coming, that nation which ever
has been inspired by their deeds. has
welcomed these great men. Joseph
Joffre, Arthur j. Balfour and Rene
viviani, and other members of their
French and British commissions during
the week just closed.
Possibly the biggest event in the his