Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 7
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WHAT THE UNITED STATES HAS ACHIEVED IN WAR ACTIVITIES AND MORAL LEADERSHIP* nds, Colleagues and Students: We are gathered here this afternoon, not so much to review Great War year, as to dedicate ourselves anew to the great enterprise that have undertaken. year Ce and helping our hard-pressed and courageous Allies, it does not seem to me that the average American citizen even yet realizes what a fundamental world issue is involved; how great is our privilege in being permitted to enter this conflict actively and on the right side; how important a turning point in the history of the world the outcome of this war may be; and how fortunate we are in having a president, who has seized the opportunity to convert what to a narrow observer seemed a mere struggle for additional territory and additional material resources into a great issue in the progress of human freedom. When Louis XVI called together the Estates General in the year 1789 to take counsel as to the state of the kingdom, a struggle arose between the king and the representatives of the various orders, which might easily have remained a mere local incident in the life of a single nation. But the genius of the French people converted it into a great crusade for liberty, equality, and fraternity, out of which grew that mighty convulsion, called simply "The Revolution," so fundamental in its characteristics and results, so sweeping in its wide-spread influence, that all previous human history all subsequent history a mere outcome of it; development seeming to conies of progress to spring out of it. regarded test on tne part of great nations for more territory and a larger population and greater wealth. I t was natural to judge from provious human experiences that smaller powers standing in the way 8. tiftftU™ t f t i & & 5 ^ f t * * Vw W* £ fe W * convoctto M A r d p* <nc nrst anniversary of the entrance of America into the Great War, April 6> 1917. 2
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