Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-26
ADDRESSES BY GEN. PERsHING
 AND PRESIDENT WILSON

ADDRESSES BY GEN. PERsHING |
 AND PRESIDENT WILSON 1 Chaumont, Dec. 25.-(By The A. P) l Immediately the reception at the Ho- | tel de Vile President Wilson with l General Pershing and party motored | to Humes, where the president re- 1 viewed a detachment of the First Ar | ! my of the American eXpeditionary l forces. Addressing the troops, General | Pershing said: MT. President and Fellow Soldiers: 1 We are gathered here today to do hon. 1 or to the commander of cur armies 1 and navies. For the first time an American president will review an 1 soil of a sister republic beside whose | gallant troops we have fought to re-
 store peace to the world l Speaking for you and your com
 rades l am proud to declare to the l president that no army has ever more loyally or more effectively served it's country, and none ilas ever fought in>I a nobler cause.
 'Yeu, MT, President, by your con- 1 tdence and by your support, have 1 made the success of our army, and to you, as our commander in chief, may
 l now present the nations victorious 1 army"
 In replying, President Wilson said:
 General Pershing and Fellow Com
 rades. wish that I could give to each
 enc of you the message that I know l you are looking to receive from those
 at home who love you. I cannot do that, but I can tell you how everyone | has put his heart in it. So you have l done your duty and something more. i You have done your duty and done it with a spirit which gave it distinction 1 and glory
 I And now we are to hail the fruits of everything. You conquered, when
 you came over, what you came over ii for and you nave done what it was
 appointed for you to do. I know what you expected of mo. Some time ago
 q gentleman from one of. the countries
 with which we are associated was dis cussing with me the moral aspects of l this war, and I said that if we did not insist upon the high purpose which
 we have accomplished the end would
 not be justified. Everybody at home is proud of you :. and has followed every movement of l. this great army with confidence and ' affection. ''The whole people of the United |. States are now waiting to welcome
 you home with an acclaim which prob . ably has never greeted any other ar
 my, because our country is like this
 country we have betA so proud of G the stand taken; (of the pUrpose) for
 which this war was entered by the :, United States.
 aa a You knew what we expected of v you, and you did it. I knew what 2 you and the people at home expo cted T of me: and l am happy to say, my fellow countrymen, that ' do not find T in the hearts of the great leaders with 2 whom it is my privilege now to CO., '. operate any diligence of principle CT ' ] of fundamental purpose.
 } Tt happened that it was the privi- T lege of America to present the chart
 for peace, and now the process of set < t!ement has been rendered compara- u lively simple by the fact that all the nations concerned nave accepted thai :. chart, and the application of these II principles laid down there will bt = tkeir application. The world will nov V know what the nations that Tough II this war, as well as the soldiers wht S represented them, are ready to inakt le good, make good not only in the as :, sertion of theSr own interests, bu IL make good in the establishment O ses peace upon the permanent foundation ll Of right and of justice.
 'e Because this is not war in whiel 'u the soldiers of the free nations hay 7r obeyed masters. You have comman ders but you have no masters. You It very commanders represent you il $, representing the nation, of which yol or constitute so distinguished part.
 And everybody concerned in tn IS settlement knows that tt must be at peoples peace and that nothing mus
 be done in the settlement of the issue Id Of the war which is not Us handson Id as the great achievements of the ar lh mics of the United States and the al ns lies.
 Tt is difficult very difficult, men, V any normal speech like this to shol Tt you my real heart. You men prohabl to do not realize with what anxious at elF tention and care we have followed ey
 cry step you have advanced and ho mt proud we are that, every step was de advance, and not in retreat; that e1 in cry time you set your face in any d
 reetion you kept your face in that d of rection.
 .s "A thrill has gone through my heal t. as it has gone through the hearts every American, with almost evel nd gun that was fired and every strol OF that was struck in the gallant figh h. ing that you have done, and there h; tn been only one regret ln America af ny that was the regret that every me
 1 there felt that he was not there av France, too.
 G Gen 1t has been a hard thing to pel If, form the tasks in the United State bv it has been hard thing to take pa CT in directing what you did withol mt coming over and helping you to do 1Ir It has taken a tot of moral coura: rs to stay at home. But we are prol ne, to oack you up every Mneie, lilat he now I am happy to find what splend Tr names you have made for yoursely ad among the civilian population F
 France, as well as among your con
 rades in the armies of the French, ar ng it is fine testimony to you men th ha these people like you and love y It ard trust you, and the finest part nd it all is that you deserve their truf lO- ET eooI q ,lai,o h 1yoJs r.