New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Mane-Lafayette Feast Brings
France and u. S. Closer Together
Ambassador Jusserand, Banquet Says Bois-de-Beea
Has Been Renamed for Brigade American Marines Who
Hurled Back Huns and Started Present Advance

would be assured. There could be no
victory and no peace without the utter
destruction Of Austria Hungary, he de-
clared. He said also that the integrity
of the small national groups on the
German frontier of Russia must be es
tabIshed to prevent the Germanization
Of Russia.
Lafayette Field Named
Secretary Lane said in part:
Before leaving Washington to-day |
did thing which pleased me, and, |
man whose birthday we celebrate, and
in honor Of the Lafayette Escadrille,
named flying field in the Mount Desert
National Park Lafayette Field This
body Of beautiful meadow lies at the
foot of bold mountain which we are
to call the Flying Squadron 1t faces
the sea and looks directly across to
France. And on one of the shoulders
Of this mountain we expect to erect
the names Of those flying men who
have given their lives to secure world
liberty.
"Thc United States has summoned
within one year twenty-three million
men to the colors-te million under
the first draft and thirteen million
under the second draft are to register.
the Lusitania, to tho sinking Of the
Sussex, to the bombing Of Red Gross.
Hospitals, to the crucifixion of Ca
nadians, to mustard gas and to all the
horrors of Belgium.
"We arc answering Germany with
ten thousand tons of new ships each
day, which we will make twenty thou
sand tons next year. We are answer
ing Germany with tanks and aero.
n hor hn
vcntvc genius of America is not yet
exhausted
"Abovc ali, we are answering Ger
many with q spirit CT determination
and of enthusiasm and confidence which
cannot De cxceled in that whole sweep
of Western Europe, from the Shetland
Islands to the A1gcan Sea.
I'VE are speaking in terms of force
now because we a~e speaking the one
language which the German hierarchy
understands, the language that comes
from the cannon's mouth and we will
continue to speak in that language un-
til we have a military decision, and
military decision will have been
reached, AS | understand it, when Ger
many knows that she has been whipped
in battle and knows that she will be
whipped again and again if she con
tinues to fght-that she cannot stand
or against it's moral force.
These are glad and glorious days,
ennobling days. The world has stood
in fear and trembling for four years
but as the Britishers, the Canadians,
the Australians, the Americans and the
French sweep on their way they lift
the burden from our hearts and fiji us
with high hope, for now we know that
we arc on our way to that military de
cl,
tween nations under which wars may
not be made impossible, but more an
reasonable and more unlikely.
~ expect that this society Will meet
two years from this time to celebrate
rot merely the birthday of Lafayette
or the glorious feat OF JofTre, nor
merely the end Of this unprecedented
war, but the close of an epoch in the
history Of the world and the beginning
Of a new day in the relationship be-
tween nations and in the relationship
between man and man.
The New World TO Come
"Now that We sec that peace is to
come to the world We arc deeply in
! tercsted in the new world that will
be. For all conceive that this war has
been another great step on the road
to real democracy, a democracy in
spirit as we'll as in form Every one
can perceive that the worlds thought
IS In state of flux. Nothing is static.
We must make america more perfectly
the expression Of our own belief that
IT is the throne-seat Of liberty and JUS
tice.
"Thc essence of our thought. Of our
political. our social. and our economic
philosophy. is fair play-far play be-
tween nations, fair play between men.
We must have clear and concise CON
ception, ourselves. as to what America
IS, and we must interpret that concep-
ton 10 the world. and especially to
that portion of the world which has
come to our shores and which has not
yet become American
We have undertaken the greatest
task, the solution of the largest and
most involved problem. that any people
nave undertaken gathering together
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