For France - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1150065435 ISBN 13: 9781150065439

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... AN ANCIENT FRIENDSHIP F all the countries in the world, France has been the most closely allied, by deed and word, to America. No American will ever forget the services she rendered to our suffering coun try in those desperate times which brought on the struggle for independence--an independence so loftily maintained up to the present time. The gift of France to America, as an enduring token of this friendship--the Statue of Liberty in our harbor, standing with her uplifted arm and spreading about her the welcoming light of hospitality to the incoming peoples-- stands as a towering monument of the friendship of the two republics. My hope, throughout the present European conflict, is that the result of this stupendous struggle will make it possible to secure in time the liberty of all men in all countries throughout the globe. --Daniel Frohman. FOR FRANCE BEHIND a coquettish little chateau in northern France a dead body, wrapped in a sheet fast| ened with many safety pins, was lying in an open grave beside an apple tree. It was a strange grave--a huge, irregular hole nine feet deep. It was a strange apple tree--grotesquely uprooted, it lay upon its side. Why bother to dig a grave when the Germans, from five miles away, had sent a high-explosive shell to dig it for you? So argued Sergeant de Monclos, when he and Raspail, after the chateau had been abandoned, stayed behind for a while to attend to a friend who was to stay behind forever. They had now gone to await the ambulance, leaving the last formalities to Parigot--and a spade. It was high time the chateau was evacuated. Early that morning the pointed western tower had been neatly hit and carried away, Red Cross flag and all. On a neighbouring hill a French battery of 75's was still protesting at the outrage in fou...

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• ISBN 10: 1150065435
• ISBN 13: 9781150065439
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