He next recalled that certain nations had pleaded that they had ingly threatened the communication lines indispensable to the Allies, and when a third of French soil was in the enemy's hands, the United States came in The Foreign Minister then stressed the purely moral motives which decided American intervention.
"It is rare that in world history purely moral principles should shape the basic policy of countries," he said. "However, it was the second time that these principles brought France and the United States together in the brotherhood of arms."
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