The Penn's Grove record., 1919-02-14
MUST A By FRANCE
High Tribute to the Americans

more dCC4EdkS ~ SSs 80
hull in the Storm" said Georges Gle
menceau. the French premier, IN the
course Of an interview OF the AsSo-
eiated Press today. AT least he
added. 1T is as well 70 face squarely
all the possibilities.
Although Germany had been beaten
militarily and had been largely dis
armed. there still remained, the pre-
mier pointed out, "a chaotic but fruit
ful Russia from which great help may
be drawn by the Teutons. There
would be danger, he thought, OF q re
opening Of the military debate If It
were not for the assurance President
Wilson had voiced recently that when
ever France or any other free people
was menaced the whole world would be
ready 20 vindicate its liberty.
In the society OF nations. said the
premier. each nation must be Wiling
10 renounce is traditional aloofnesS
and be willing TO employ the national
strength outside its own country, ooth
in wartime and in peace.
Il lived in the United States IN my
l and formative days said Pre-
mier Clemenceau. in beginning. Per
haps. therefore, l may be INDUCED 10
say a few words 70 I Allies on the
other side of the Atlantic. Not by way
OF advice or propaganda, but frankly
as friend 10 friend.
The friendship between u peoples
which has subsisted for a century and
a half is a very beautiful thing. The
like of it has never existed for the
same length of time between any other
two peoples.
L. 5. Entry Into War Dramatic
"The entrance of America into the
great war was full of dramatic inter
est. The application Of nationwide
CONSUMPTION without the slightest dis
turbance, the universal s~elf-denial to
supply US with food and all our re-
ouirements, the unit of purpose and
the amazing energy of 100000 900 OF
people of so varying and complex a
character challenges our admiration
and gratitude.
and the way American soldiers
fought! Nothing could have been
finer. Inspired by the hottest ideals,
| may say TRANSPORTED, they entered
upon their task with all the determl-
nation, all the fervor, all the spiritual
purpose of the old-time crusaders.
They did work!
"And now the war is won. The
world is made safe for democracy, Tor
life, liberty and the pursuit OF happi-
ness, as Jefferson said in the Amerl-
can Declaration of Independence. And
the future is before US. What has 1t
in store?
81 am told that some of these gal
liant American soldiers, who lived IN
trenches, slept in dugouts and burrow-
ed in the mud in devastated and war
torn France, when they crossed the
Rhine and in an undevastated land
found clean beds and baths rather re-
gret that they fought on the side OF
freedom and would rather have fought
on the side of the numbering Germans.
| do not believe it. | am sure there
is no American soldier who does not
recognize that France, the battlefield
of the war, could not give him the
comforts that Germany, undevastated,
was able to do. | do not n Will not
believe so of a single one OF n Dril-
liant warriors who came from the
states to our aid in the great struggle
for civilization against savagery. II
is incredible.
az believe there is some criticism
that there have been overcharges by
the French for food and other things.
Well, there are things to be said about
that. First, for many years the Amer
leans have been coming to Europe and
with abundant means and great gener-
osity have been spelling our people.
They have paid for everything with a
bounteous hand. AS a result they nave
taught our people, who were willing
pupils, that they were very rich and
very, very generous. 1t was but hu-
man that our people should expect
much from the Americans.
Relations Most Cordial
at is only fair to say that in every
case where the attention of the French
government has been brought to a
case of extortion an earnest effort las
been made to stop it. But also you
must know that all the time u own
French people have paid the same
prices for what they bought that u
Americans friends have.
Throughout the "a our relations
with the American army have been
most cordial, and your treasury offic-
ials will assure you, | am sure, that
there has always been a spirit of gen.
crosby on both sides. Any sugges-
ton that we have asked payment for
trenches or the burial places of u
brave soldiers is atrocious. For all
future ages the graves of American
soldiers will be in the tender and sac
red keeping of our grateful people.
81 have said that the al is won.
1t would perhaps be more accurate to
say that there is a lull in the storm.
At least it is as we'll to face squarely
all of the possibilities.
"Recent disclosures have enabled US
to look deeper into the purposes of
the enemy than we could heretofore.
1t was not purely a dream of military
dominion on the part of Prussia. 1t
was a definite, calculated conspiracy to
exterminate France, as much industri-
ally and commercially as in a military
sense. In this effort the German bank
ers and manufacturers joined their
general staff. The exposures of DR..
Muehlon, of the Krupp works, and of
Kur+ Fisner at the Berne Socialist con-