The Penn's Grove record., 1921-04-29
RENE VIVIANT'S VISIT
Great French Statesman and Orator
Sought The Administrations
Policy In Peace

1NGlAC f4N4GAAl9 AS
and Frances greatest orator, came TO
the United States the last week IN
March to interview PRESIDENT Harding,
Secretary OF State Hughes and the
Senatorial ~oligarchy as to their
foreign policy to end the war with
Germany. The best he could do was TO
tell Frances love for the United
States Tor aid in the World War and
to fawn and fatter the powers In COM
mand Notwithstanding they have been
standing between the Allies and Ger
many Tor two years and giving no
moral support to France towards max
ing Germany pay. He left for France
April 10th.
He was banqueted in New York
CITY by the France-American Society,
and there gave the best example of his
French ~eloquence, in part as follows:
When he began to speak, it was IN
a quiet tone. C~ourteously he acknoWl-
edged DR.. n. NJ. Buffers words of
/ praise and greeting to France, then
launched into his address. He recalled
Americas earliest history, the cradle
where heart and brain and spirit
were folmed," and told how at the
court of Louis XVI, neal the end OF
the eighteenth century, Eoltalre and
Franklin, two apostles of revolution
and freedom, unknown to n another,
approached each other from the ems
Of a great room, drawn by some IN
stinct, and embraced.
You are the heirs of the immorta!
parents who leaned over your cradle,
he erred. Lafayette came, and be
tween France and America sprung up
that deep friendship that never suffer-
ed change or loss.
1.-The stranger who comes to your
shores and gives a superficial glance
around him, sees only mat many Tor
eIgnerS have gathered here struggling
against each other Tor supremacy, but
a closer view shows him That all nave
been welded and purified by your IRE.
And see how our history resembles
yours. Some OF you may be struck by
the revolutions and struggles and dis
sensions OF our past and ask, is this
really the great france Of which they
tell US? But as you gaze, the contra
dictions, combats, d1sparltles, dlsap-
pear, and across the chaSm you behold
stretching a great bridge, that is the
deep soul Of France, uniting all her
people in one holy nation. We have
never marred the flower of the union
'sacree,' which belongs not to us alone,
but also to YOU
A storm of applause followed. When
it had subsidized he raised his head, and
went on. There were no frantic GEES
lures that the Frenchmen is reputed
to use so often, only the pouring
words, the fire of the speakers genius
Transforming him and holding every
eye upon him.
Republican, Democrat, what Is 1t?
| know only the American heart that
beats for France, in happiness as IN
affliction. | know we are to feel yet
more deeply the union that binds US.
Our situation is tense, it is grave.
Having known the horrors Of war, we
now are learning the complexities of
peace. In war, duty is tragic, but it Is
plain. 1t is victory OF death. But in
peace many roads lie open, and which
one should we follow? We must have
victory and live And the applause
broke out again.
TO live-is it to see always before
us the spectre of oppression? -Four
times in n century we have entered
the bloody path of war, and in 1914 it
was the fifth. Shall we not be able
to leave to our children a heritage of
happiness? A great Frenchman OF an
earlier war said: Many have persisted
that others might not perish And
we, who by the millions have fallen,
shall we not have the right of life, for
US and for those to come? Must still
others perish? To walk amid the ruins
of our homes, and dread another com
ing of the enemy with all his ruthless
ness and might, is that to liye?' He
paused.
"All the world knows that Germany
is responsible for this war, yet every
where | hear whispers that Germany's
capacity to pay must be envisaged,
that perhaps we ask too much. Too
much, when the total cost of the war
is estimated at one thousand billions
of francs? Too much, when Germany
has not paid one centime of the actual
cost of carrying on the war? Where
is the material for rebuilding u de-
vastated regions? Let Germany but
send it and we will supply the labor
from those of our countrymen who
need it sorely. That is all we ask, but
we do not get it.
eve have been the victims of war,
but | swear to you that we shall not
be the victims of peace.
Everywhere here in America he
concluded, 81 see about me the busts,
the photographs, the memorials of La
fayette, who came to your land to pour
out his blood for his ideals, and |
know that the American people are
worthy of our confidence, that they
will support US in our struggle. One
hundred and forty years after Lafay-
cite we, the sons of France, and you.
the 0 n of America, stand united in
a comradeship that will cease