The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-14
FUTURE PEACE OF WORLD WILL
 BE GUARDED
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T know with what ardor and en- thusiasm the soldiers and sailors of the United States have given the besS that was in them to this war of re- demption. They have expressed the true spirit of America. They believe their ideals to be acceptable to free peoples everywhere and are rejoiced to have played the part they have played in giving reality to those ideals in cooperation with the arm ies of the allies. We are proud of the part they have played and we arc :, happy that they should have been associated with such comrades in a ! common cause. i
 Tt is with peculiar feeling, MT. i President, that I find myself in 1 France joining with you in rejoic- 1 ing over the victory that has been | won. The ties that bind France l and the United States are peculiarly ! close. i
 do not know in what other com i; radeship we could have fought with
 more zest or enthusiasm. It will 1 daily be a matter of pleasure with me to be brought into consultation with the statesmen of France and her allies in concerting the measures
 by which we may secure permanence for these happy relations of friend ship and co-operatiC5, and secure for the world at large such safety
 and freedom in it's life as can be se- cured only by the constant associa~ tion and cooperation of friends. ''l greet yoN, not only with deep personal respect, but as the represen- tative of the great people of France.
 and beg to bring you the greetings of another great people to whom the fortunes of France are of profound and lasting interest.
 l 'I raise my glass to the health Of 1 the President of the French republic
 and to Madame Poincare and the
 prosperity of France"
 1 Paris, Dec. 14.---In his address to President Wilson, President Potncare
 said:
 "Mr President: Paris and France
 awaited you with impatience. They
 were eager to acclaim in you illustri-
 ous democrat whose words and deeds
 were inspired by exalted thought, the
 philosopher dehghting in the solution
 of universal laws from particular
 events, the eminent statesman who
 had found a way to express the high
 est political and moral truths in for
 mulas which bear the stamp of im- mortality.
 'They had also a passionate desire
 to offe rthanks, in your person, to the great republic of which you are the
 chief, for the invaluable assistance
 which had been given spontaneously, ', 4t.S, A@ ,5
 right and liberty.
 ''Esven before America had resolved to intervene in the struggle she had
 shown to the wounded and the or
 phans of France a solicitude and a
 generosity the memory of which will
 always be enshr1ned in our hearts. The liberality of your Red Cross, the
 counties gifts of your fellow citizens.
 the inspiring initiative of American . women, anticipated your military and naval action, and showed the world to
 which side your synpathies inclined. And on the day when you flung your~
 selves into the battle, with what de- P termination your great people and , yourself prepared for united success! 'Sone months ago you cabled to
 me that the United States would send
 ever-increasing forces. until the day should be reached on which the Allied armies were able to submerge the en- enny under an overwhelming flow et new divisions, and. in effect, for more than a, year g. steady stream of youth = and energy has been poured out upoT , 3 the shores of France.
 ''No sooner had they landed thar
 your gallant battaHons, fired by theil 5 chief, General Pershing, flung them U selves into the combat with such manly contempt of danger, such { smiling disregard of death, that ou Il longer experience of this terrible wa; Il often moved us to counsel prudence T They brought with them, in arrivint here, the enthusiasm of crusader @ leaving for the Holy Land.
 Q "It is their right today to look wit Is pride upon the work accomplished an U to rest assured that they have power
 fully aided by their courage and thei d faith.
 J. Eager as they were to meet tn 'e enemy they did not know when the 'r arrived the enornity of his crimes IS That they might know how the Ger J. man armies make war 1t has bee to necessary that they see towns sys 'e tematically burned down. mine n flooded, factories reduced to ashe' s, orchards devastated, cathedrals shell f. ed and fred-aIl that deliberate say lg agery, aimed to destroy nations oe wealth, nature and beauty, which tn lg imagination could not conceive at Id distance from the men and thing ed that have endured it and today bea IS witness to it.
 n "Tn your turn, Mir. President, yo 1e will be able to meaSure with your ow m eyes the extent of these disasters, an
 the French government will mab 1y known to you the authentic docr h. ments in which the German gener; h. staff developed with astoun ding cyl es icism it's program of pillage and il Ve dustrial annihilahon. Your mob cn conscience will pronounce a verdi uo on these facts.
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