"Those men left this freetiom—the freedom and obligation to fulfill their dream of peace. The measures necessary for the achievement of peace are often disagreeable, burdensome and expensive. In Utopia, that ideal land created more than 400 years ago by the imagination of Sir Thomas Moore, war was detested as much as war is detested today in America.
"Yet the inhabitants of Utopia were accustomed to indulge in daily drills because they acknowledged they might be called upon to make war for two causes. The first was to defend their own country.' The sec-and was to drive out of their friend's lands the enemies that have invaded it."
"Today the nations that have been the most reluctant throughout history to accept the burden of daily drill and the obligation to assist friendly peoples in case they should be attacked, have accepted drill and prepared themselves to come to the aid of remote peoples.
"Why have they acknowledged these obligations as the Utopians acknowledged them? Because they know that if great nations wash their hands while the lesser nations are destroyed, a day will come when they themselves will face the enemy without friends and they know it is not enough to be strong but alone."—United Press.
France is firmly determined to defend her liberty and will tolerate no cans who fell along side them on the blood-soaked soil of our country.
"France has not been an unworthy guardian of her sublime heritage. She has not forgotten the example all those young men gave the world and for 20 years has consecrated all her efforts toward promoting peace
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