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,of being regarded as the friend of

small force Of soldiers to occupy
piece OF territory where 1T is thought
nobody else will be welcome. they ask
for American soldiers. And where
other soldiers would be looked upon
with suspicion and perhaps met with
resistance, the American soldiers are
welcomed with acclaim.
Il have had so many grounds for
pride on the other side of the water
that l am very thankful that they
are not grounds for personal pride. but
for national pride; II they were
grounds for personal pride I'd be the
most stuclSup man in the world. And
it has been an infinite pleasure to me
to see those gallant soldiers OF ours
OF whom the constitution of the United
States made me the proud commander.
six division. but l commanded the
Twenty-siNth division daughter and
9ppiamse)' and see what they did nn.
praises the American soldier with the
feeling that in praising him he is sub
tracting from the credit OF no one else.
Il have been searching for the fun
damcntul fact that converted Europe
to believe in us. Before this war Eu-
now. She did not believe in
throughout the first three years of the
war. She seems really to have be-
lieved that we We're holding off be-
cause we thought we could make more
by staying out thnn by going in. And
all OF sudden. in n short eighteen
months, the whole verdict Is reversed.
There can be but one explanation for
1t. They saw what we did-that with
our men and all our means at the dis
posal of those who were fighting for
their homes, in the first instance. but
for n chuse, the cause of human rights
and Justice. and that we went in. not
to support their national claims, but to
support the great cause which they
held in common.
And when they saw that America
not only held ideals. but acted ideals.
they Were converted to America and
became firm partisans of those ideals.
Il met group Of scholars when /
one of the Greek universities who had
come to see me, and in whose pres
ence. or rather in the presence OF
whose traditions of learning, / felt
very young indeed. And / told them
that ! had had .one of the delightful
revenges that sometimes come to
speak with a sort of condescension of
idealists and particularly of those sep
chose to term academic. who We're in
the habit Of utterinE ideals in the free
atmosphere when they clash with no.
And have said have this sweet
revenge Speaking with perfect frank
ness in the name of the United states,
hnve uttered as the objects OF this
great war. ideals and nothing but
ideals. and the war has been won by
that inspiration. Men were fighting
with tense muscle and lowered head,
until they came to realize those things.
feeling thoy were fighting for their
lives md their country and when
these accounts Of what It was all about
reached them from Amcricn they mt
ed their honds. they raised their eyes
TO heaven. then they saw mon In
khaki coming across the sen In the
spirit OF crusaders and they found that
those were strange men. reckless OF
danger not only, but reckless because
they seemed to see something thnt
mude danger worth while. Men have
We're possessed by something they
could only call religious fervor. They
were not like any OF tho other soldiers
hIfl hRNr "a HTstn Nm
and they were fighting In the dream
and fighting in the dream they turned
the whole tide of battle and 1t never
And now do You realize this conn-
dcnce we have established throughout
the world Imposes a burden upon us?
If you choose to call 1t burden. 1t
is one Of those burdens which any ma
tion ought to he proud to carry. Any
man who resists the present tides that
run In the world Win find himself
thrown upon a shore 90 high and bar
rem that 1t will seem as If he had been
| separated from his human kind for
ever
of the nation. We set this nation up
to make men free and we did not con-
fine our conception and purpose to
Now" said the President. this con-
ference we have established calls for
something. The Europe | left was full
OF the war was sinking to "A stubborn
desperation. They thought the end OF
ne war would eyentualiy be a resump-
dreamed it would be a Europe of set
tied peace.
Now all the peoples of Europe are
buoyed up in the hope that all the ma
tions OF the world shull unite their
moral and physical forces that right
shall prevail. If America should fail
the world of its hope. the nations will
he set up as hostile camps again. and
the men at the peace conference will
go home with their heads upon their
breasts beCause they will have failed.
We would leave the peace table
nothing but modern scrap of paper"
Men. he declared. who would have
America fail the world in its hopes saw
only beyond the nearest horizon.
They do not know the sentiment of
America" he said.
Speaking Of hopes of the people of
Europe for a lasting peace which he
said were pinned to the United States
as tns friend of mankind" the Pres
'dent said he hnd no more doubt Of
the verdict of america in this matter
than ! have Of the doubt of the blood
thpt Is in me"
their heads now to do great thing
and they are not going to stop short
Of their purpose" he said.
Il do not speak of the governments
but OF the peoples who will see that 81
their present governments do not do
their Will some others Will. And the
secret, is out and the present govern
ment knows 1t.
II have come back for an attempt to
transact business for a little while in
that l have been trying to speak your
thoughts. Probing deep in my heart
and trying to see the things that are
right rather than the things that are
"Npedient, ] am finding the heart of
America.
Il find that in loving America have
Joined the majority OF my fellow men
throughout the world"
U. S. Tonnage Big.