The Penn's Grove record., 1921-04-01
RENE NINIANA
Famous French Statesman, Diplomat
and Orator Now Visiting the
United States

Last Monday Rene Viviana arrived
in New York City from France. He
is on a diplomatic mission to learn
from President Harding and his cabi-
net their opinion and intentions as to
the Peace treaty and the League OF
Nations Covenant which was negotl-
ated by President Wilson and rejected
by the United States Senate. Mr..
Nlviari is France representative in
the League of Nations and on the
committee on amendments. Hence he
is seeking information on what condl-
ton President Harding and the Repub-
lican Senators will accept a ratltica-
tin of the Treaty and representation
in tho League.
This is not Mr.. Viviana's first visit
to the United States. To get a past
view let us go back five years.
President Wilson's Dream
On January %, 1917, President Will
son made an address before the United
States Senate, which some pronounced
the most important pronouncement OF
an American President since the Mon
roe Doctrine pronounced a hundred
years ago, warning European nations
they could not recover lost colonies on
the Western Continent. He was look
ing beyond wal then raging in Europe
which the United States had not en-
tered to end to be sought at the close.
He said:
THE equality of nations upon which
a must be founded, if it Is to
last, must be on equality of rights.
peace cannot be had without con-
-s IL -C-n5Eao Tho statesmen
of the world must plan for peace.
Nations must adjust and accommodate
their policy to it as they have planned
for wal and made ready for pltlless
contest ana rivalry.
Il am proposing, as it were, that tie
nations should with n accord adopt
the doctrine of President Monroe as
the doctrine of the world; that no ma
ton should seek to extend its policy
over any other nation OF people, but
that every people should be left free
to determine its own polity, its W
way of development, ~unhindered, I'M
threatened, u~nafraid, the little along
with the great and powerful.
Il am proposing that all nations
henceforth avoid ~entangling alliances
which would draw them into competi-
tions of power, catch them in a net OF
intrigue and selfish rivalry, and dis
turb their own affairs with influences
intruded from without. There is no
entangling alliance in a concert OF
power, When all unite to act in the
| same sense and with the same puf-
pose, all act in the common interest
and are free to live their own lives
under a common protection"
April Z, 1917, President Wilson adj
dressed the Congress and Congress
declared war, because Germany
thought America would not fight and
could drive our ships off the sea. Mr..
Viviana and General Joffre visited the
United States and paid tribute to our
nation by visiting the tomb of Wash
ington at Mt. Vernon. A bronze palm
such as France gives to her soldier
dead was laid on the tomb. General
Joffre. the hero of the Malne, said;
an the French Army all venerate
the name of Washington. | respectfully
greet here the great soldier and lay
upon his tomb the palm we offer our
soldiers who have died for their
country"
"The British laid upon the tomb a
wreath, also Hon. Arthur j. Baltour,
the British statesman, said:
"There is no place in the world
where a speech for the cause OF lib
erty would be a better place than here
at the tomb of Washington, but the
work has been so adequately done by
a master of oratory irene NiViana)
perhaps you will permit me to read
a few words prepared by the British
mission for the wreath we are to leave
here today april 80, 1910.
dedicated by the British mission
to the immortal memory Of George
Washington, soldier, statesman, pa
triot, who would have rejoiced to see
the country of which, he was by bn.
a citizen and the country which his
genius called into existence, lighting
side by side to save mankind from
subsection to a military despotisrn.
MIR. Niviana's Vision
Before the United States Senate,
May /, 1917, Mi. Niyiana, IN pert
said:
.<You have SET al the democlaoies
Of the world the most magnificent eX-
ample. So soon as the common peril
was made manifest to you, with sim
plicity and within q few short days
Won voted q Formidable credit and pro
claimed that n formidable army was
to be raised. PRESIDENT Wilson's con-
nentaty on his sets. which you made
vcu.s. remains in the history OF tree
peoples the -woirht;est f lessons.
..Douhtless You wore resolved to
ayerg the insults offered your flag,
lLo 7,LoIo world TpSDpcted: