Another important speaker on the veeasion of the inauguration was the French Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bonnet, who outlined the cireumstances' of the intervention by the United States in the Great War.
"When France was weary ax a result of her efforts around Verdun, when the submarine warfare increas 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"
French Desire for Peace "Our most ardent desire is that it reveals itself capable of ensuring the triumph of peace, The demonstration of Franco-American friendship commemorating the arrival of the first American con-Aingents in 1917 was held in beautiful weather and in the presence of a huge crowd Including people from all neighbouring departments, "The monument inaugurated Is a 75 metre high pyramid erected on a promontory and overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
It Is a gigantic lighthouse and a sort of replica of the Statue of Liberty in. New York harbour.
Inside the monument, a museum will be created containing various souvenirs of Franco-American friendship.
The following inscription may be read on the side of the pyramid facing the sea: "To the glory of Americans and. General Pershing's soldiers, defenders of the same ideal of right and Uberty which led General Lafayette's volunteers to America."—Havas.
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