New Britain herald., 1929-06-12

Louis," but Dr. Hugo Eckner, inset flyers just the same. Here you Sc hangar at Toulon before its return
 BY MINOTT SAUNDERS
 Paris. June 12.-The future pere- srinations Of the Graf Zeppelin, pride of German dirigible construction. remain undetermined, but in history this particular airship must remain . messenger of goodwill among men. In serving as medium to al- low the French and Germans bet ter to understand each other, it has performed mission beyond even the widest dreams of Count Zep- pelin himself.
 Dr. Hugo Eckener cannot very we'll be called a second Lindbergh, nor can the falterins Graf Zeppelin bs compared with the proud Spirit of St. Louis," but an association of better feeling has been in evidence because of their respective landings on French soil.
 Lindbergh's visit was opportune because 1t came at time when there was much misunderstanding between French and Americans, owing to the exchange crisis here. Eckener's visit, within a few days of the second anniversary of Lind bergh's landing. came when the German reparations experts were resisting the terms offered by the Allies. and the most extreme acri- mony was given free play ih the press of both France and Germany. Enmitv Is Forgotten Unwillingly. it is true, Dr. Eek ener brought his ship down near Toulon safely. thanks to the gall lant aid of the French, and mfrac- ulously, over night, the press of both countries, forgetting the ex- perts and even burying memor- les of the war, spoke of each oth- CT with courtesy and complete un- derstandins.
 There arc hazards which are providential." wrote Camille Ay- mard, one of the foremost journal. tsts of Paris. with regard to the landing of the Graf Zeppelin in France. and he might equally as we'll have been writing of Lind bergh's landing. At an hour Of great irritation between two peo- ples. when the sky was overcast by clouds. . compelling incident happened in . critical hour which should have | profound repercus- sion between the two nations" On both sides of the Rhine that incident is remembered. The lit- tie town of Cuers- Pierrefeu was locking up .ts windows for the night when the town crier-they are still on the job in villages here - shouted through the streets. calling upon all vigorous men of good will to. rush to the aero- drome. The great German Zep- pelin was coming down. in dis tress, and needed helping hands. "Fraternity Of Mankind'' Sixty lives were in peril,'' wrote M. Aymard. Sixty agoniz- ed beings were coming to ground. to salvation or to death. The hv"r called upon the fraternity of man. kind and in less than an hour the German airship was reposins peacefully in . French hangar" Soldiers rushed out of bar racks. civilian men. many of whom bore war wounds. left their sup per tables and gave a hand to the ropes that the Germans dropped. Dr. Eckener. lin voice calm and bustness-like," gave his or ders in German and they were i'm. mediately translated into French and obeyed.
 The Graf Zeppelin was conduct ed to the very hangar constructed to house the Dixmunde, the German Zeppelin commandered by the French after the Armistice and which fell into the Mediterranean in 1923 with all hands lost. but the past was all forgotten and only the friendliest feeling pre- vailed between French and Ger mans.
 After the Graf had been rcpair- cd so that a return flight dare be attempted. Dr. Eckener invite l several French officials to accom- pany him-and they accepted.
 Tt was the first time since the armistice," wrote Leon Bailby in rIntransiseant. that between the two nations there arose . senti- ment pure and without rcticence. . sentiment of sincere recognition on the part of the Germans with respect to something we had done and at last giving credit to a peo- pie never understood until this in- cident."
 Clement Vautel. writing in Le Journal, sees two results that should follow the landing of the Graf Zeppelin and the better un. derstaniing between the two peo- pies. First. he believes the Chauvinists of both countries should be softened and begin a moral disarmament":
 'ln the history of the reconcili- ation of two great peoples 50 stu ated as to understand and esteem each other. the name of Cuera should be written in history be- fore that of Locarno. It will evoke the memory. not of diplomatic nA n nNAvsyeAA h,,t Nf . n art nt h,,