Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-18
PEACE BE COMMENSURATE W|TH PRICE OF VICTORY" ''THE YOUTH OF THE UNITED STATES BROUGHT A RENEWAL OF THE HOPE THAT
 FASTENED VICTORY "CERMAN HIGH COMMAND WAS NOT IGNORANT
 THAT IT FACED A CDll0SSAl DISASTER" we Must Make Peace to Correspond With Magnitude of Our Victory. Peace As Absolute As Our
 Success, Guard Against Future
 Aggressions."


 the Associated Press. Ut is the conviction of Marshal f'och that the Rhine must be made he Barrier be- tween Germany and France. He cX- pressed this clearly today when he received American newspaper cor respondents The Marshal is here in connection with the meeting con corning the extension of the German armistice.
 Marshal Foch pointed out the diff faculties that had been overcome and said that peace must be com mensurate with the price of victory. Germany now was beaten, he added, but with her resources. especially in men, recuperatiOn in a comparative ly short time was quite possible and il was now the duty of the allies to prevent further aggressions.
 Marshal Foch praised the work of the American troops and said that General Pershing had asked the American forces be concentrated for an attack on one sector. The allied Generalissico admitted that the Ar gonne-Meuse front where the Amer jeans began their offensive on Sep tember 26th, was sector hard to tackle" The Marshal said he had told General Pershing: >s
 "Your men have the devils own punch. They will get away with all that. Go to it."
 The American attack succeeded the marshal continued, "and here we are on the Rhine."
 The armistice was not concluded too soon and the allies got all they asked for from Germany without continuing the fight. The allies, the marshal said, were prepared for another offensive stroke which would have forced the Germans to give up. This was to have been made on November IA, with six American and twenty French divis- ions.
 "This is, for me-" Marshal Foch began, "a happy opportunity to tell you all the good things l think of the American army and of the part it played on our side. Your soldiers were superb They came to us young, enthusiastic and carried forward by vigorous idealism and they march cu IO DdItIe WltH AuIilIIdolc BdlldH- try. .......
 Artnerican Army Superb.
 "Yes, they were superb. There is no other word When they appeared our armies were fatigued by three years of relentless struggles and tha mantle of war laid heavily upon them. We were magnificently com forted by the viriity of your Ameri- cans.
 "'rhe youth of the United States brought renewal of the hope that hastened victory. Not only was this moral fact of the highest importance but you also brought enormous ma terial aid and the wealth which you placed at our disposal contributed tc the final success. Nobody among us will ever forget what America did.
 "And you know what happened on the field of battle since the month o1 July-first. on the Marne, then in the region of Verdun. General Pershina wished, as far as possible, to have his army concentrated in an Ameri. can sector. The Argonne and the heights of the Mouse were a sector hard to tackle. There were consid. efalbe obstacles there."
 Marshal Foch was asked by the 
 "But was not the armistice con- cluded too soon?"
 "It was not possible to do other, wise" answered the Marshal. "because the Germans gave us everything that we asked for at once. They satisfied all of our conditions. It was difficult to ask more.
 Doubtless any General would have preferred to have continued the strug- gle and to have battle when the battle which offered itself was so promising but father of family could not bpi help think of the blood that would be shed. A victory, however. easy costs the lives of men. We held vic tory in our prasp without any furthe, sacrifice. We took it as it came
 "The German high command was not ignorant of the fact that it faced colossal disaster. When it surren. dared everything was prepared for ar offensive in which it would Nffallib], have succumbed. On the fourteenth we were to attack in Lorraine witt twenty French divisions and six Am. erican divisions. This attack would have been supported bv other move. ments in Flanders and in the centoP.
 "The Germans were lost. 4ey s4 # .ls1t