New-York tribune., 1918-07-15

they would continue until the moment
Of just and lasting peace had come.
And that then, and then only, would
France be relieved of the menace which
had bcset her during the last fifty
/ years. Then France would turn with
wonderful artistic, scientific, versa
tile genius and help to develop her won
derful country.
$50 would say to France, in the
name of all Britons: Hail to you,
France Noble and victorious as you
will be, glorious "a you are, heroic as
you have shown yourself, you will turn
in after years to make your country,
beautiful as 1t is, even more beautiful
because you will have achieved a VIC
tory. with the assistance of the Allies
which viii have been won not by the
bodies but by the souls Of all the ma
Mons united in this alliance"
For several minutes after Lord Read
ing had concluded the audience stood
cheering nightly.
Italy Adds lts Word
Count d Cellere. the Italian Ambas-
sador. opened his address with quota
ton from the ltalian poet Giosue Car
ducci. which reads, in translation, "We
who love thee. France"
lie spoke Of the blood bond that cx-
4 ists between the two great Latin ma
tions and of the aid that they had been
to oach other IN times pono by. Venice,
be SAID, was Frances ally against the
! Germans AT Cambria in the sixteenth
century He also spoke Of the aid that
France hid rendered Italy in the latter
lands war Of libcraton
We realize" he added. that there is
something greater than words can say
in the spiritual depth Of our union, ns
we feel the thrill of standing shoulder
TO shoulder against the common foe.
Ihls war has added strangely win
some and wistful expression to our
daiY talk somewhere in France My
dcar colleague of France the hearts Of
MI italy are somewhere in France to-
day. tve'y one of us allies has Some
where ~ France not only a part OF the
hover OF the country's manhood but
also and above all OF his legitimate
pride IN our common humanity. The
immortal principles of 1889 nre being
echoed all over the Allied front to-day.
NJ. lusscrand recounted the events
which eliminated in the fail Of the Bas-
Tile and IN describing the overthrow
OF this symbol Of autocracy, he said:
"One hundred and twenty-nine years
ago to-day the Bastille fell The dust
rose so high in the air that it was seen
from every capital in the world. Some
despotic rulers understood the portent:
! some not.
''Thc two greatest events in our his
tories are closely connected indeed Be-
tween the end of your revolution and
the beginning of ours there clapsod
only SIX years. Between your Consti-
tuition and ours, four years Our flag.
devised the day after thc fall of the
Bastillc and combining the same colors
as yours, is just a little younger than
your Old Glory born also in Reyolu-
tionary times. And the two, floating
for the first time together over the
trenches Of distant France. defying the
barbaric enemy. have much to say to
each other-much about the past, much
about the future
"Our declaration of the rights of man
~ of the same period and it begins. al
most word for word. as your Declara-
ton of lndependence, saying: Men are
horn and remain free and endowed with
equal rights Both the flag and the
first draft OF the declaration were due
to that French soldier who was also an
American soidicr-Lafayette The words
inscribed on our first flags were practi-
cally those OF Patrick Henry Liberty
or Death ="
llc also referred to the fact that in
other times France had been able to
stretch the hand OF aid TO some of the
nations that arc now lighting with her
against the scourge that threatens man
kind Among these nations that had
been lifted up by France he named
Belgium, Greece, Italy
"And now behold" he exclaimed.
he Aags of all those countries are
aligned with yours and ours. facing
the same enemies OF mankind as
President Wilson has branded them.
And all those flags. with halo of
glory recently made even more bright
IN Flanders and on the piave, in the
Balkans, have much to say to each
other when futtemng in the wind of
the she'll
He also sent greetings TO japan.
China and the other members of the
far-fung group OF Allies, and chen
spoke Of what America is doing in
France
All Praise America
"Wha' shall say of the good YOU
are doing over there you Ameri-
cans :" he said. THE French Four
teenth IS not celebrated solemnly for
the irst time in this country. 1t was
celebrated here several times during
the years OF our revolutions On one
OF those occasions, in the city OF indie
pendence Fhilade lphia- this toast was
proposed; The rule Of proportion. AS
France acted with respect TO America