The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-11-02

gogues who sing the 'lnternationale"
to thinking.
Marching with these magnificent wom-
enfolks Of ours were the army nurses
and other women-widows and the like.
Admiral Beatty, Gen. Diaz. Marshal
Foch and Gen. jacques stood in
the reviewing stand In their service uni
forms. Ordinarily they would have worn
the more ornate full dress uniforms and
probably would have looked more i'm
posing. But they wore their fighting
clothes because they were reviewing
fighting men. Over their heads fleet
Of airplanee droned. dropping bombs Of
roses. and over on the cliffs beneath
which will stand Kansas City's glorious
memorial to the dead soldiers and sailors
OF America cannon We're booming.
Twilight fell and darkness began to
settle over this sooty md-Western town
before the Last doughboy had passed the
reviewing quintet. Tonight the dough-
boys are dancing with thousand Mis-
souri, girls in the vast convention hall
and Beatty, Foch. Diaz and Pershing are
being dined In the Hotel Baltimore. where
Governors of several States and the Of
fetal life of Kansas City are their hosts.
What, beside this, was the glory of the
great Condo, Gonsalvo Of Cordova Mar
shall SAKE or even of Napoleon or Well
ington?
Pershing Talks Like Father.
However. the parade was but half the
day. This morning twelve or fourteen
thousand legionnaires crowded into the
convention hall to hear Pershing and
f'och. Pershing talked 10 them like a
father. The French soldier began like
a schoolmaster laying down rules and
formulate Ia n class OF boys. But he
caught fire as he recorded the deeds
Of the American buddy, and eventually
he was tnlking as one soldier to an
other. az man who had seen a great
menace arise. threaten and be crushed
to men who had seen 1t and crushed 1t.
The throng caught his fire despite the
fact that he talked in French and that
Francis Drake. commander of the Paris
Post Of the American Legion. interpreted
FOR him. They appiauded Foch's words,
and they applauded Mr. Drake almost
rs long and as enthusiastically as they
cheered the weatherbeaten Gascon him.
self
And after that they went down to the
Penn Valley Bluffs. whereon they had
Cathered in wild acclaim on Monday
night to greet the arriving Marshal ana
stood with their heads bare while Foch.
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placed wreaths upon the spot where
great memorial monument IL to arise.
The actual dedication was done by Foch.
The telling seems incomplete without
mentioning the fact that the huge
arches, staircase and columns are to
cost s., 1000.
While the site was being dedicated
the airplane fleet scared above. dropping
its rose bombs. and the heavy cannon
back on the farthest cliff roared like
defiant animal and probably emblematic
of the voice of bereaved country great
In its grief and proud of its sacrifices.
A voice the world might hear, UNDER
stand and ponder upon.
"Soul of the United states"
After the parade the great leaders in
the war expressed themselves thus:
MARSHAL FOCH-The parade
shows the great power and dignity OF
the American Legion. This power
and dignity we're developed in the
world war. During all the time 1
watched battalion after battalion
passing ! thought to myself here
IL the soul of the United States.
Here are the men who fought for
great principle and whose souls dom
mated everything In the struggle.
Their souls now stand forth. These
are men of high ideals--men who
would make fine backbone for any
nation" We have the sar:e spirit
in France IL delighted me beyond
measure to-day to SEQ that spirit in
the faces OF the Americans who took
part in the war
GEN. DIAz--After seeing the pa
rade became convinced that the
American soldier Is one of the most
dangerous type of flghters--the
fighter who smiles. Give me the
good humored fighter above all others
the man who can undergo suffer-
ing and privotion, and still smile.
Beneath an exterior OF gayety and
youthfulness the American Legion
man has n spirit of great depth and
seriousness. Your men to-day
marched marvellously. IT pleased
me above all things to see many
natives of Italy In line. ! would
offer fine simile as TO the
Italian living in the United states.
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