The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
JUSSERAND CITES US. ADVANTAGES IN BIDDING ADIEU
Veteran French Ambassa' dor Is Honored At
 Farewell Banquet
(By Associated Press.)

if NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Jules Jusser- and, French ambassador to the United States, who will reliquish his Washing ton post early in the new year, after 22 years as chief of the French diplomatic mission, tonight was guest of honor at a farewell banquet by three Franco American organizations, the France. America society, the Federation of French Alliances and the American so- ciety of the French Legion of Honor. z Reminiscing pleasantly in response to toasts and tributes, Ambassador Jusserand drew upon the wealth of his / experiences in the United States during the five presidential administrations to illustrate the fundamental reasons for and the progress of Franco-American amity. o.
 The occasion, he said, filled him with emotion and reminded him of day 22 years ago "when a new comer to these lands saw for the first time rising above the waters, up to the clouds, against the BabylQnian mass of human work, the Statue of Liberty lighting the world--a French welcome for French visitor, the same who is still for few more weeks the ambassador of France to the United States"
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 All those years the early welcome of the statue has held true for Ambassador Jusserand.}s S
 "When, leaving these shores" he said in closing his address, II shall look at her and see her diminish on the horizon, a parting wish will go to her: Raise alooft thy torch, o liberty, may it ceaselessly continue to light the world and under thy guidance, may the French and the American nations remain faith full to. one another, united, loving, for eyer."
 From his first day in America, Am bassador Jusserand said he never felt he was living in a foreign land.
 At banquet in Paris" he declared, "and American general could Say with truth, the French ambassador is lucky, whichever way he crosses the Atlantic, he goes home ' Also from the first M. Jusserand said, he never forgot the sym bolical greeting of the Statue of Lib erty, that told him to remember how two struggling nations born of revolution had moved hand in hand toward an ideal, which will be fully reached some day in liberty, equality and justice
 Comedies Contrast
 The Ambassador conceded the two nations were not quite alike, but the groundwork was the same, he said, based upon liberty, equality and fraternity, and the three fused in justice.
 "On these lines our democracies can report progress" he said, 'in ancient times rulers, God-lik& sat on high thrones and humanityS squatted on the ground. There are no longer any such exalted seats in our countries, but there are chair for all 7"
 With their differer g, French and American temper have much in com mon, said the French envoy. He recall ed the early history of the republics as we'll as his own wartime experiences to illustrate that both peoples are at the same time practical and sentimental.
 We are hard working races, 'he said, every attentive to the bargains we.drive, !, but when an appeal is made to senti- ment we melt"
 French Medal Laid
 eve remember with, hope, pardon able pride, that in the cornerstone, of some chief structures erected on this side of the ocean, French medal has been laid as an amulet bespeaking pros perity. The first and only treaty of al- liance was with France; the first ship in the incipient Amerean navy was from designs supplied by us, the first treaties of any kind, amity, commerce, navigation, consular service, arbitration -IThad the honor of signing that one were with France. The plains for the federal capitol were supplied by the major Penfant so devoted to the Ameri- can cause, that his arrival here preceded that of young, enthusiastic, chivalrous, M. De Lafayette. The cessation of Louisiana was the cornerstone of Amer ican greatness. Only yesterday, not figuatively in this case, but really, the cornerstone of the young and already famous American Academy of Arts and