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(News and Courier.)

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A closer and ever closer friendship
between France and America was the
| theme Of the address delivered by
Gen. Johnson Hagood in Paris on the
18th Of May.
Gen. Hagood, who is now chief of
STAFF, SOS, American Expeditionary
Forces, spoke in reply to Marshal
Joffre, before the Association of
French Homes.
There are many>in Charleston and
IN South Carolina who Will be graft
fled to know that this brilliant young
South Carolinian, one Of the youngest
| generals in the army, and who has
| advanced by leaps, should have been
singled out to represent the army on
this occasion. and will be glad to
read what he had to say. He spoke
briefly, but to the point, saying:
Ladies' and Gentlemen: am
sorry do not speak French, but as
your distinguished Marshal Joffre
spoke IN America in his own Ian
guage. l hope l may do the same
mere, especially as I know there are
fe" among you who do not know
| English we'll enough to understand
| the few words l am about to say:
II feel that it is too great an honor
for me to speak for America in reply
to Marshal Joffre, the most distin,
guished living soldier; but perhaps
1t Is better that you should see in me
what America really is.
Marshal Joffre and the other
great generals of France are the pro-
fessors of the military art. and the
other soldiers Of America are the pu-
pills of your great military school.
You represent the mature manhood,
the tried soldiers of France. repre-
sent the young men Of a non-military
nation; the youth, the vigor, the
spirit of America, unframed but
eager to learn.
| America comes into this war not
to help France, but to fight side by
side with France in the same cause.
We were slow to come into the war,
and because Of our form of govern
ment we have been slow to get ready;
but we are in the war now with all
our might, with all our soul, with all
our mind; and we are in to win!
America is like an overgrown boy
who likes to think in big numbers,
Weiwant to have the most money, the
fastest racers, the biggest wheat
Asssas, the longest rivers, the tallest
buildings in the world. Our people
like to think that they can do things
better than anybody else. So when
we finally realized what this war was
and decided to get into the game, we
then and there decided that we were
In 1T to the finish; that we would
give all our money, all our young
men-everything that we had-and
never stop until the game had been
won by our side.
France has made a great sacrifice,
the greatest sacrifice undoubtedly of
all the allies, but you have the war
at your door; the enemy Is in your
country; you feel the dread and the
horror Of his presence; and your
people can see the necessity for fight
ing him away. But it Is hard for our
people, so far away, to realize what
1t is, and 1t is hard for the mothers,
the wives and the sweethearts of
America to send their young men
across the sea when they know that
many of them will never return. But
1t Is truly like the Spartan mothers
who bade their sons return with
their shields or upon their shields
Every young man who leaves America
feels, his mother feels, his wife feels
his sweetheart feels. that he will
come back either victorious or dead
We come to France for no mate,
rial gain. We expect to divide nc
spoils. We come to fight for what we
believe is right, and, when the victory
is ours, we shall return empty-hand.
ed, unless it be, perhaps, to take our
dead with us.
But while our purpose here is to
fight we wish to make the most OF
this opportunity to make friends with
the French. Many Of us have French
Dlood III our veins. I myself have
much Of 1T. The American army
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