Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-07
MARSHAL rocks TRIBUTE
T0 V NJ q A WAR W0R

TO Y. NJ. c. \. WAR W0Rk
Officers and members of the Young
Mems ChristiaR association have been
greatly Interested in the dinner given att
Washington last month under the inter-
national committee of the Y. III. c. A.
at which Marshal Foch Of France was 4
guest.
Before the zoo guests, who included
members Of the United States govern
| the lay officers and secretaries of the Y.
M. c. A. Marshal Foch paid the follow
ing tribute TO; the war work Of lthe asso-
citation:
There is no greater eulogy to be made
of your Y. NJ. C. 4. work on behalf of
| the allied armies than to enumerate in
figures, the services that we're rendered.
There are no words that speak better
than these figures; I cannot better them.
But I must say here, In nay capacity as
! chief of the French armies. how greatly
We have appreciated the services that
you We're able to render us. In 1914.
led by the great principle OF unselish
service, you started to aid. to relieve
the prisoners of war; and shortly after
we asked you: Come and help US to
uplift our soldiers"
The French soldier, It Is known. is
ibrave, full Of Initiative; he Is full of
Impulse, he is full of that spirit which
IS called the Trench fury" but will it
last? The world doubts It. VIII it he d
out? Will he be teadfast? Will he last
in long war? All the world asks that
question.
+ Well! Yes! To the great astonish-
Kment of the whole world this soldier wa S
seen to endure to hold out during bat
ties ,asting more than twenty days. un-
der continuous fire. persistent, without
any shelter having very often FOR cover
ou'4v the bodies of his. comrades who had
fallen; during four VIM ars he was seen
maintaining his trench warfare a war
in the hood-land. having for SKI bpt the
SKY Of winter. with IFS clouds and fits r.
gors. and his only Shelter hole IN the
ground.
In this effort. all moral sunno-ts
seemed sIIre to break upHer lombard
plant which never ceased. Wrlat man
was there whose nerves We're sufficient
ly- strong to endure for entire years?
Above all. the loneliness. tlle reaesion.
the danression. the melarh1olv. that
which was recently and rA~v iudicio-si,
called the "blues invaded II, minds
and seemed as if they must turn the
soldiers awav from facing the enemy.
Welt This mora :. We have bAAn ab;e
to s'Tst9in. franks to year noVerful helm
thanks to the Fover sdu S0ldat Union
Franco american :. N. c. A.. into
which the tired soldier came for now
STRENGTH. and to frd n touch OF tina;
family life. or at least mot familiar enIl.
tact which sAemed to him an ia6ntts
comfort. This was the means bv which
resistance WIS sr1alntained. and when ",
wished to Advance We found ENERGIES
much bette~ revival .zed and much bette
0rAnsred because these soldiers who feI
/ a7d proved IN themselves the contact .
this sond viii -r1ac>d entirely at thei
disnosal believed thAmsAIves oh,'e,ed t.
nav sill ONCE more with their iife-bloo1
: end advance.
when We d4snitely> launched onr hna
Offensive they we've srivArl forward h
the ins7'ration Of the forces herind. an;
: the soldiers marched ahead with rAso
: luts step determined and conscience
: bn''"A2to go to the very limit
j From this direction came that ms gnif1
e cent hast which. driving cur sails an
: our iaos carried them forward IN al
Irresistible assault TO that moment o.
November II. when ti1a enan1v triA
Hat! Enough Yes. Our Fae
+ hlendine with each other. we fo-
: rAso uteIv ahead driven nv that i'm
: nu'se. not on'r Of soldiers who ff'r, them
. selves sunnorted bv the errqn!za+;o,
5 h"Hipd them. hut above all. bv theI
. ! 18th their relir'nus belief and their al
: so'u+e self-sacrifice.
"a Then. let me. Reptian7An. attribute
n great part OF orr sucress 70 Won q
i p'uch in the defensive as in the oefensiv
4 by that sHrror+ which yn1I cave MS an
. "a"suse Won sheItArA4 all that work |
= tho shadow of t''A finest Of ideals. tn
= princ4r1ia- o. unsAifsh service.
7 w6f|id never oone'u pentIAr4A-,.
: attempted 70 tell Won al the sAnti-r,oni
that iTs~ire me in the nresAnce of sne
~esTil+s hit I must lander TO YOU ~
erraafest -"T71ant7 you - that fHS IN tt
!. dentlls Of INV heart. for all the work yo
:. have undertaken ana realized