the fate of the world is still pending; to France, which has again
checked the Huns of the modern world as it did those of the ancient;
to France, the manhood of this nation must now be directed, to
save the heritage of the American Revolution and the Civil War, to
preserve the dearest conquests of the Christian civilization; to
France will our men go by the thousands, hundreds of thousands, if
need be by the million, to prove that the soul of America is more
completely intent upon battling for the right than ever before,
intent that slavery in another but far subtler and more dangerous
form may not prevail upon the earth.

It was Washington who gave as the watchword of the day in those
soul-trying hours that preceded the birth of our nation the immortal
and prophetic phrase, "America and France--United Forever."

[signed]Frederick Coudert THE END.





Ce Que Disent Nos Morts




Il n'est pas besoin de rappeler le souvenir de ceux qui nous furent
chers et ne sont plus, a notre peuple qui passe, non sans raison,
pour celebrer avec ferveur le culte des morts. N'est-ce pas
en France, au dix-neuvieme siecle, qu'est nee cette philosophie