Arizona republican., 1919-07-11

great moral force had flung itself into he struggle.
 Tributes American Soldiers "Thc fine physical force of those 1 spirited men spoke Of something more . than bodily Vgor They carried the !. great ideals Of a free people at their l hearts and with that vision were un- conquerable. Their very presence brought reassurance; their fighting made victory certain. They were rec ogulzed as crusaders. and as their goods sWelled tO millions, thelr strength was seen to mean salvation. And they were fit men to carry such "a hope and make good the assurance It forecast. Finer men never went into battle. and their officers were worthy of them. This is not the oc- casion upon which Go utter an eulogy Of the armies which America sent to France but perhaps since I am speak ing of this mission ] may speak also of the pride l shared with them there. They were the sort of men America would wish 10 be represented by, the sort Of men every American would wish to claim as fellow countrymen, md comrades in a great cause.
 They were terrible in battle and gentle and helpful out of it, remember ing the mothers and the sisters, the wives. and the little children at home. They were free men under arms not forgetting their ideas of duty in the midst of tasks of violence. l am proud tu have had the privilege of being associated with them and of calling myself their leader
 Visible Embodiment of Nation
 "But I speak now of what they meant to the men by whose sides they fought and to the people with whom they mingled with such utter simplicity as friends who asked only to be of service. They were for all the visible embodi- rnent of America What they did made America and all that she stood for a living reality in the thoughts not only Of the people of France, but also of tens of millions of men and women through out all the toiling nations Of a world standing everywhere in peril of it's freedom and of the loss of everything it held dear. in deadly fear that it's bonds were never to be loosed. it's hopes forever to be moclaed and disappointed. And the compulsion of what they stood for was upon gus who represented America at the peace table. It was our duty to see to it that every decision we took part in contributed so far as
 
 the fears and realize the hopes of the peoples who had been living in that shadow. the nations That had come by our assistance to their freedom. lt was our duty to do everything that 1t was within our power to do to make the tri- umph of freedom andt of right lasting triumph. in the assurance of which mer might everywhere live without fear.
 Are Riqhteous Terms
 Tt had been our privilege to formu- late the principles which were accepted as the basis of the peace, but they hac been accomplished not because we hat come in to hasten and assure the vic tory and insisted upon them, but be- cause they were readily acceded to as the principles to which. honorabiy anc enlightened minds everywhere had beer bred. They spoke the conscience O the world as well as the conscience O America and I am happy to pay my tribute of respect and gratitude to thu able, forward looking me5n with whom it was my privilege to cooperate to their unfaiIing spirit of cooperation rtilaar-a constant effort to accommodate the interests they represented to tn rrfncinies we were all agreed upon The difficulties which were many, la, in the circumstances, not often in tn men. Almost without exception, tn men who led had caught the true an full. vision Of the problem of peace a an indfv1sible whole. a problem, not 0 mere adjustment of interest, but c iustice. and right action.
 New nations were to be created Poland. Czecho- -SloYalda- Hungary it self No part of ancient Poland ha ever in any true sense become a par of Gerrnanl, or of Austria, or of Rus sia- Bohemia was alienin every though and hope to the monarchy of whic she had so long been an artificial part and the uneasy partnership betwee Austria and Hungary had been on rather of interest than of kinship 0 sympathy. The SlaRs whom Austri had chosen to. force into ther empir on the.s south were kept to their obe dience. by nothing, but fear. The hearts were with their kinsman in tn Balkans. These were all arrangement Of power- not arrangements of natur; union or association 1t was thes i'm peratiVe task of those who would ma4a peace and make it fntelltgently to es tablish a new order which would re: upon the fpee-choice of peoples rathf than upon the arbitrary authority ( Hapsburgs or Hohenbonerns.
 Held by imperiahstio. Bonds
 More thans-th great population bound by sympathy and actual kin Rumania. were. also linked against the Vfil-to the congIomerate of the Austrt Hungarian monarchy or to other aIbe sovereignties and it vas part of q task to make a. new Rumania. as wt as a now Slavic-state clustering abo Serbia. And no natural fTontiers>cou be found to these new fields of ad jus ment and redemption It was nece sary to loolr-constantly forward to, otl CT related tasks The German -coIoni were to be disposed of. They had n been governed= they had been e, plointed merely without thought of u interest or even the ordinary hums rights of their inhabitants
 '-Fhe Turkish empire, moreover. h; fallen apart. as the Austro- Hungaris had. II had never had any real unit IL had been held together only by pit less, inhuman force. It's people -cri alond for release, for succor from .Jll speakable distriess, for all that the ne day of hope seemed at last to bril within its dawn Peoples hitherto
 utter darkness were to be led out in the same light and given at last a. hel ing hand Undeveloped peoples al peoples ready for recognition but n vet ready to assume the full respor hilihees of of-statehood, were to be g1v adequate guarantees of friendly pr .ection. guidance and assistance.
 Provides Common Agency
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