The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-26

eiioiii aiiu tiic peOple OI the OnlLed states ] l. like them, shall carry away with me the most delightful recollections and in my heart shall always say, as l. now say, Vive La France''' l PERSHlNG WELCOMES WILSON 1 Chaumont, December 25.-(By the Asso- ciated Press. ss.)-Immediately after the re- ception at the Hotel De Vile President 1 Wilson with General Fershing and party motored to Humes. where the President reviewed a detachment of the First army of the American expeditionary forces. Addressing the troops, General Pershing said:
 MT President and fellow soldiers: We are gathered here today to do honor to the commander of our armies and navies For the first time an American Presi- dent will review an American army on foreign soil-the soil of a sister repub- lie beside whose gallant troops we have fought to restore peace to the world. Speaking for you and your comrades am proud to declare to the President that no army has ever more Loyalty or more effectively served it's country, and none has ever fought in a nobler cause. You, MT. President, by your confi- dence and by your support. have made possible the success of our army, and to you, as our commander in cheif, may now present our nations victorious army
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 In replying. President Wilson said: General Pershing and Fellow Com rades: I wish that I could give to each one of you the message that l know you are longing to receive from those at home who love you. I cannot do that, but I can tell you how everyone has put his heart into ir. So you have done your duty, and something more. You have done your duty. and you have done it with a spirit which gave it distinction and glory.
 "And now we are to hail the
 fruits of everything. You com
 quered, when you came over, what
 you came for and you have done
 what 1t was appointed for you to
 do. I know what you expected of
 me. Sometime ago a gentleman
 from one of the countries with
 which we are associated was dis
 cussing with me the moral aspects
 of this war, and I said that If we
 did not insist upon the high pur-
 pose which we have accomplished
 the end would not be Justified.
 "Evessbody at home is proud of you and has followed every movement ot this great aSmy with confidence and affection.
 ,The whole people fof the United States are now waiting to welcome you home with an acclaim which probably has never greeted any other army, be- cause our country is like this country we have been so proud of the stand taken tof the purpose) for which this war was entered by the United States. NO DIFFERENCE OF PURPOSE
 s.You knew what we expected of
 you, and yOu did it. l know what
 you and the people at home ex-
 pccted of me; and l nm happy to
 say, my fellow couDtrymen, that
 do not hnd in the hearts of the great leaders with whom 1t is my
 privilege now to cooperate any
 difference of principle of funda-
 mental purpose.
 Tt happened that if was the priv ilege of America to present the chart for peace, and now the process of set clement has been rendered compara- tively-simpie by the fact that all the nations concerned have accepted that chart, and the application of these prin- ciples laid down there will be their ap- plicatiop. The world will now know the natiors that fought this war, as well as the soldiers who Represented them, are ready to make good, make good not only in the assertion of their own interests, but make good in the establishment of peace upon the perma- pent Justification of right and of jus tlee
 Because this Is not war in which the soldiers of the free nations have
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