New Britain herald., 1918-12-16
|MERICA ENTERED
 l BATTLE ID FIGHT |FOR WORLD RIGHTS
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pnies, Adrien Mithouard, president the municipal council of Paris, &d:
 ''I. have the honor, in the presence # the president of the republic. to 8esent to you the municipal council N Paris, whose interpreter I am in Blooming the chief of the great na-
 n whose aid, arriving so opportune- brought us victory, and the up-
 Eht man whose conscience fashioned
 palicy and whose diplomacy was
 hde of loyalty"
 Greets Mrs. Wilson. Turning to Mrs. Wilson, M. Mith-
 ard said:
 @' @'+ldadame. Paris is infinitely happy, Ad is touched, that you who have
 companied the president have been
 cd enough to add to this occasion
 e charm and the grace of your
 esence. We have long been aware X your devotion and of the wise and Bnet1cent activity you have shown by
 e side of your iIlustrious husband. At nothing touches so much the Aart of the people of Paris as to be
 rmitted to know those who have al- shdy conquered by their goodness.
 us Paris, by my voice, acclaims you.
 q lays at youF feet, Madame, the
 Image of it's gratitude and it's re-
 bet"
 Extends Nations Greetings.
 FinaIly, speaking again to President
 lses1, M. Mithouard said:
 i NIr. President, it is with deep emo
 h that the capital welcomes today
 first president of the United States ho has crossed the ocean and our 8y hall, the cradle of French liberty, #I mark in it's annals the day on &ieh it was permitted to receive the Ainent statesman of the union, the Bizen of the world-dare we say the #bat European ?-whoSe voice, heard
 Fore the coming of victory, called to
 e the oppressed among the nations. & &sDuring weary months our soldiers
 we fought with stoic resolution in eense of the soil of their forbears sd the land of their children. So
 st was the field of battle, so great ! s the issue at stake, so bitter and hard was the struggle that only
 fer the passage of time did it seem ssfTble that the grandeur of their ac-
 mplishment could clearly show fth. Yet your distance from the Heatep~ of war has allowed you to see, bile yet they lived, the greatness of
 monument they were building. S'F'rom the, other side of the world
 l have spoken in advance of the dgment of history. What a source strength was it for these fighters
 ddenly to hear your voice, in it's btant authority resembling the voice posterity; what joy to welcome bse new brothers in arms hastening kth .ardor to claim at the critical
 UT their place upon the field of bat i; what comfort for them to feel Rt they were henceforth arrayed kh the glorious army of General
 rshing, the victor of the Ar snne."
 Thus, Paris, eager to see in the sh the man it had known only by $ written word and by his image, lay lives over again with poignant
 ensfty the history of Americas de- lion, as it was unfolded in your shscieace before the eyes of the rid.
 t'Profoundly moved by the mag hcent generosity with which com striots had set themselves to relieve
 sufferings, with what anxious yet snf1dent expectation did we follow e progress of your thought and of
 IT feelings.
 Beneath the deliberately measur- tone of your notes and messages. fslt litIe he mourning of a Ehteous anger. What was then our Ezled admiration when there burst
 on us the message of April 2, 1917, pich gave to the questionings of the lnericaa conscience heir supreme Inclusion, and, in Pasca1's words, ought together justice and force to |cide4f for long centuries the fate of humanity.
 e'We are proud, Mir. President, to Fer you welcome in the name of fs capital
 Four country is not alone that we'll lyed land for whose liberation the bod of sons of the unions is min- ed with that of sons of France; our suntry to us means also, and by ght of heritage, justice, goon sense Nd honor; and because you come to in the name of these noble things, day we dare to call you a citizen of Rris.
 B"Take then, MT. President, the sin Ire good wishes of our city, yester- sy under the menace of the Berthas sd the Gothas, a citadel of the Iib- sties of the world, but today open to noble and generous ideas, and en- susiastically acclaiming in the great kizen she has the honor to receive .e embodiment of a new ideal which smes to her."