twenty-three years ago, these mem-ones do not evoke feelings of exultation over successes gained. They rather impel tributes of miration to the valour which on both sides sought to obey the call of patriotic duty, as each conceived it The foes of that time are, it is earnestly hoped, the friends of this and the allies of those years still Kenit together by the "sense of comradeship which' secks to overcome the obstacles to permanent world peace. General Pershing had regretfully to admit that the sit tion, after all those sacrifices in the Argonne, still has to be spoken terms of dread of a new war in the future, unless the remedies be applied in' time. In his person the leader of that First American Army of the Argonne, the American veteran must have received special attention for his warning] and exhortation. Perhaps in spirit he saluted the ghosts of his dead comrades keeping their unceasing vigil on that foreign soil and invoked their aid in turning the minds of the living to renewed.effort for averting a repetition of the travail. It may be that in so doing he did not forget the presence of other ghosts whose enmity had passed with entry into the shades. Americans have special cause to hope that the sacrifices which they' shared with the rest of the world at Montfaucon and elsewhere will not have been fruitlessly made. They stand apart from the immediate clash of European suspicions and hates, but they no less fear! the dangers so involved. On their: confidence in the ultimate emerence of liberty from the toils the present confusion much depends. It is satisfactory therefore to note President Franklin Roosevelt's strongly stirring reaffirmation of faith in the democratic ideal 1o which in the spirit of goodwill men Took for such statesmanship as may render it unnecessary to disturb the vigil of Argonne,
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