Arizona republican., 1921-12-11
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
BY DR. FRANK CRANE Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)

A very impressive ceremony took place in October in Westminster Abbey, when General Pershng, the head of the United States army laid the Medal of Con- gress upon the grave of the Unknown British Soldier buried there.
 This incident needs to be widely noted in the United States
 There two forces constantly at work in our country, in all countries.
 One of these forces is DisSension. It the natural tendency of nations to suspect dstust and dislike one another It is the sentiment which is the little seed out of which grows
 There are many agencies at work cutvating this sentiment among Most of them do it unconscously and from what they consider the best of motives. But nevertheless they steadily injecting poison into the nation
 The other force is the spirit of Unity of Brother hood It is the duty of all men who have any sort of vision and who really desire the welfare of the human race to promote this spirit as much as possible.
 When the came the allied nations were drawn together In very strong and wholesome sentiment of brotherhood Every effort should be put forth to keep alive this sentiment And the act of General Pershng is the kind of thing that helps in this direction.
 This idea was expressed by King George upon this occasion in letter which he wrote to the general He expressed his heartfelt good wishes for the International Conference to be held at Washington and his hope that the statesmen who gathered there would bring their la bors to satisfactory conclusion And he added these words:
 May they do all that practical statemanship can achieve to pepetuate the comradeshp of the in the maintenance of peace" g
 The sentiment expressed in London newspaper as follows: AS
 .'Such act of knightly homage General Persh- ing performed at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey yesterday recalls the victorious comradeshp in the world peace which is yet to win.
 And this ought to be the aim of the populations, both of GreaBrtain and the United States to allow bitterness to estrange them For upon the unity of the two English speaking governments depends the peace of the world
 Of course, the English government has made mis- takes, and the American government has doubtless done the They both human and it is right to crit cze them and to correct them But to allow the inevit able of government to make enemies of the two great peoples would be an unspeakable calamity I Sir L. Worthington Evans at the banquet given to General Pershing, used these eloquent worlds | "A great forward step has been taken by the sum- moning of the Washington conference. May the same spirit of mutual accommodation and frateal affection that with which stood together in the great animate the representatives of nations to carry out the high resolve, that dead shall not have died in vain"
 It is to be hoped that the sense of the two great nations will go forward in spirit and insist that Great Britain and the United States shall go forward hand in hand to fulfil the purposes of destiny
 And it is to be hoped that this will find expression not only in words but in deeds. General Pershing said , in his speech on the same question::
 ' for one have arrived at the conclusion that the
 time for the exchange of compliments about over and that all that now seems to be necessary to reach some sort of understanding that will guide in the future