The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-25


 indeed without your comradeship and counsel: and tried at every step of the work which fell to me to I would your with regard to the great matters which were under con- sideration.
 I do not you think I have not appreciattve of the extraordinarily generous reeep ton which given to the other side. In t 4,s 'I d not mean to say that Ve deeply by the cries that from great the other side. But say you in all honesty that felt them to be call of greet ing you rather than
 did feel that the greeting personal. I had in my heart the over-crowning pride of being your representative and receiving the plaudits everywhere who felt that your hearts beat with theirs in the cause of liberty There was no nstaz- ing the tone n great crowds. It tone of mere greeting, it tone of generous welcome; 1t the calling of comrade the cries that from who say, We waited for this day, when the friends of liberty should come across the and shake hands with that world constructed upon @ new basis and foundation of jus tice and right
 I can't you the inspiration that from the sentiments that of those simple voices Of the crowd And the proudest thing have to re- port to you is that this great country of ours is trusted throughout the world.
 Servants Peoples
 have not come to report the proceedings or the that would be premature. can say that have received very happy impressions from this confer ence the impression that, while there many diff ferences of judgment while there are some diver gences of object there is, nevertheless, common spirit and realization of the necessity of setting up standards of right in the world.
 Because the men who are in conference in Paris American they are not the masters of their people; that they servants of their people. spirit of their people has awakened purpose and new conception of their power to realize that pur- pose and that dare home from that pected of it.
 The conference seems to you to slowly; from day to day in Paris it seems to slowly; but der If realize the complexity of the task which it has undertaken. It if the settlements of this affect, and affect directly, and sometimes mink every small nation in the world and decision prudently be made which is properly linked in with the series of other decisions which must accompany it. and 1t must be reckoned in with the final result if the quality and character of that result is be properly judged
 What doing is hear the whole case; hear it from the mouths of the men most interest stoned to state 1t; hear the rival claims; hear the claims that affect nationalities that affect of the world, that affect commercial and the great world war through which we have gone struck by the moderateness those who have represented national claims. I can testify that have nowhere the gleam of passion. I have seen earnestness, have come to the eyes of men who plead for downtrodden people whom they were privileged to speak for; but they not the tears of anguish, they the
 And I don't see how any man can fail to have been subdued these pleas, subdued feeling, that there individual judg- his try to assist the cause of hu-
 None Suspects United States
 And, in the midst of it all, every interest seeks out all, reaches Paris the represer- tatives of the United States. Why? Because-and I stating wonderful n tory-because there is nation in Europe that suspects the motives of the United States.
 wonderful a thing fore? Was there moving a thing? there ever any fact that nation that had won that esteem forever to deserve it?
 would not have you understand that the great who represent the other nations there in ference are disesteemed by those who know them. Quite the contrary. But you understand that the tions of Europe have again and again clashed one another in competitive interest It is impossible for to forget those sharp that between them in times past It is impossible for men to believe that all ambitions have all of a sudden been foregone. They remember territory that coveted; they remember rights that attempted to extort; they remember political ambitions which it attempted to realize and. while they believe that men have come into different temper they cannot forget these things and so they do not resort to one another for dispassionate view of the mat teTs in controversy. They to that has won the enviable distinction of being regarded the friend of mankind.
 Whenever it is desired to send a small force of soldiers to occupy piece of territory, where it is thought nobody else will be welcome, they for be looked upon with suspicion and perhaps met with resistance, the American soldier is welcomed with acclaim
 I have had many grounds for pride on other side of the water that thankful that uonal pride. If they grounds for personal pride, I'd be the most stuck-up in world. those gallant soldiers of ours, whom Const- tuition of the United States made the proud com . mander. You may be proud of the 26th Division, but I commanded the 26th Division, see what the American soldier, with feeling in prais- ing him he is subtracting from the credit of one else
 They Saw America Acted Ideals
 I have been searching for the fundamental fact that converted Europe to believe Before this Europe did not believe in she does now. She did not believe in throughout the first years of the She really have believed holding we thought we could make by staying out than by going m. And, all of sudden, in short eighteen months, the whole verdict is reversed. There one explanation for it. They what did-that, without making single claim, put all our men and all the disposal those who were fighting for their homes. in the first instance but for cause, the cause of human rights and justice, and that in support their national claims but to support the great which they held in common. And when they that America only held ideals, but acted ideals they were America became firm partisans of those ideals,
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