New Britain herald., 1919-07-10
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 America would wish to be 6nted by, the sort of men every san would wish to claim as fel-' nntrymen and comrades in a eause. They were terrible in and gentle and hopeful out of
 em bering the mothers and the
 the wives and the, little chll- Sat home. They were free men n arms. not forgetting their ideals &nty in the midst of tasks Of Vlo- h.sy l am proud to have had the Alege4.of being associated with and of calling myself their k speak now of what they to the men by whose sides fought and to the people with &bm they mingled with such utter alplicity, as friends who asked only 'Fbe of service They were for all 2 visible embodiment of America. bat they dif ma merica and all q thoughts not offsW of the people France but also of tens of millions s men and women throughout all e toi1ing nations of a world stand g everywhere in peril of it's free m Of the loss Jof everything it held ar, it's hopes forever to be mocked d disappointed.
 E Duties at Peace Table.
 ESAnd the cOmpulsion of what they &fa for was upon us the represented wica at the peace table. It was 4uty to see to it that every de- en we took part in contributed, kar as we are able to influence to ksquiet the fears and realize the Mpf the peoples who had been
 that shadow, the nations that bme by our assistance to their if1:- 1t was our duty to do 1thing that it was within our Fer to do to make the triumph of dom and of right lasting &snph in the assurance of which might everywhere live without Old Order Hard to Change.
 pu arrangements Of every kind In the Way-promises which Ernments had made to one another ne days when might and right confused and the power of tho or was without restraint. En- ements which contemplated any dis lions of territory, any extensions FoYerssgnty that might seem. to be the interest of those who had yer to insist upon them had beeK eFed into without thought of what peoples concerned might wish. ol. aI, by; and these could not always aoAprably brushed aside. It was easy to graft the new order of sonthe old and some of the fruits ne grating may, I fear, for time hitter. But, with very few excep- 4 the men who sat with us at the ce table desired as sincerely as we atp get hway from the bad influ- ng, the ilisgitinfate purposes, the Noralizing am mbition@e the interna- p counsels and expedients kut of Aa the sinister designs of Germany gprung as 9 natural growth. l.
 Spokes World Conscience.
 sad been our privilege to rormu- Re principles which were accept SThe basis of the peace but they ten accepted not because we had 3in to hasten and assure the vic- and insisted upon them, but be- they were readily acceded to as principles which honorable and htened minds everywhere had bred. They spoke the conscience e world as well as the conscience nerica,' and l am happy to pay ribute of respect and gratitude able, forward looking men with
 it was my privilege to cooper a- their unfailing spirit of CO., tion, their constant effort to ac- odate the interests they repre-
 to the principles we were all
 upon. The difficulties which spany, lay in the circumstances St without exception the men ed had caught the true and full
 of the problem of peace as an sible whole, a problem not of Agadjustm ents of interest but of and right action.
 A atmosphere in which the con- se eworked seemed created, not dTnDILlOllS OI strong govern
 bupby. the hopes and aspira- hf small nations and of peoples to under bondage to the power Aictory had shattered and de- NJ. Two great empires had been
 into political bankruptcy and Ere the receivers. Our task was
 y. to. make peace with the cen- k1pires and remedy the wrongs Rnnnies had done. The central ~ had lived in open violation
 of the very rights for which
 had been fought, dominating
 bples over whom they had no Fright to rule, enforcing, not
 4e, but veritable bondage, ex-
 hose who were weak for the
 of those who were masters
 |slofds only by force of arms.
 couid be no peace until the
 ,rfer of central Europe was