New-York tribune., 1922-11-22

Dy, gentlemen, the sermon has been
ette's tomb and said: Lafayette.
we are here" And here you were.
and there you stood during the
worst days. ] saw the man and ]
saw the chief-very often, he NAV
have thought-but I was comforted
by their sight.
| wanted to speak with them and I
sometimes had quarrels with General
pershing, beautiful quarrels. said,
Il don't know what is your power to
say yes, but | know what is your
power to say no." A bad quarrel be-
tween US was that as soon as the
American soldiers came / wanted
them to 60 to the front and he want
ed them to go to the front, too, but.
of course, he couldn't send them as
they were.
Feared Delay In Sending
American Army in Front
He had to organize, he had to pre-
pare, he had to concentrate the
whole thing under the American flag.
he didn't want to go to battle with
out an American army, and he was
right and so was /. was right too.
Because our men were falling dread
tully. ! will speak of that in a mo-
ment. And was in great hurry.
1t was long time before the first
american soldiers came after the
declaration of war, and we had TO
.s wait, and waiting meant hundreds of
thousands of men falling and fa ifY,g.
And SO when Ilthink Of thesreality Of
the brave and magnificent American
soldiers and officers and chiefs that
have seen at the front consider
that magnificent story of TIC. when
you brought into the world that won
dcrful nation, when you fought for
the right to live and the equal right
TO pursue happiness.
1t was the first time it had been
heard IN the world. am not sure
the enemies of that time, the
European enemies, did not laugh at
it and thought it was all nonsense.
Now they ma. come and see what
those children have become, what
giants they have become, and what
things have been accomplished
came here with the idea that | want
to get romance.
And if | have not met with the
feelings | hope, then the romance is
over. But must explain to YOU in
what feeling | was. Now, l am not
going to ask you for money. You
have too much of it. | want some-
thing much more than that. much
more valuable.
Kinship of Heart and Soul
With America His Goal
/ want yourself, your heart and
SOul. | rant fhof
in France the thing that cannot be
weighed in human skins--a lite
thing, which is kind of kin feeling
OF one human being toward another.
That may exist and does exist be-
tween such nations as ours, and that
is what | want of you.
don't come to make you take any
decision or try TO have any influence
over your political men TO come to
any decision or plan whatever. None
of this. / am not an official. I have
no mission and am glad OF it, and
don't think | have any right to in
fuence any American decision what
ever.
But / come here with this idea:
That the explanations that I am Civ
ing you anay change your minds If
you have been thinking in different
way, and hoping that they viii
change your hearts, as frances
America. | have some friendly criti-
cisms to bring, and / think it is
worthy of you and of me that we
exchange them in the most demo-
cratic way.
have no intention Of making
speech or a lecture or any such thing
as that. You may see it. | simply
tax. l want to talk. | want to ex-
plain what have been my thoughts
for three years.
have been awag from any act Of
the government. I have spent all
that time in quiet place which
love, thinking, thinking Of you very
often. thinking OF my France above
all and now | bring my thoughts to
you for some adjustment between us
both. ] hope, am not sure.
We have been in the midst of q
great crisis. | say the greatest crisis
in events. because none of us can
tell how long this crisis is going to
last, and whether it won't grow at
some time worse than it is now.
Why should peace be hard to live :?
Why cannot we find common means
for preserving peace?
Snow That We Have Peace
We Must Preserve Peace
must say that this war was
brought about in the sequence of
events, and now that II is over we
must do something to preserve the
peace. The war caused the world
to get into situation in which it
| has never before been. And now that
| we have peace we must preserve
| peace.
| did not come here with mission
| and am glad Of it. came here to
! seek to preserve the friendship Of
icontiaysd on asxs ssse)
WEST PALM REACH AND MIAMI
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