Repository: UIHistories Project: Convocation - 1921 (Armistice Day) [PAGE 4]

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how innumerably that phra.se was re] ited— the lessons of the

war." What we; they In the first place, there mi. I be no m« • vvai 'I . , was to have been "the war to end wai In the second place, we were tan lit tl possibiht s of intcrnacoo As the Allies had united in the confli< D they would unite after it. Conn I would be succeeded bv . enai and peace on earth ace mp nied by d will among all men. In the third place, we were shown the foil of kings and the strength of organized democracies. It was the Emperor o: I ermany and the coterie about him, stupid, pigheaded, c llou and greed who had plunged the world into the whirl; >1; it v s the natioi essentially democratic in government—France, England, ai 1 the United States—that had finally extricated it from destruction. B the armistice, tyranny was doomed forever and democra . foreve aved. So we believed and so we preached. Well, in three^ years how far have we learned those i sson What, compared with our hopes, have been the actual develoi nent ince November 11, 1918: There has not been in Europe since that time one single dav when armed forces have not been either in conflict or pre] ing 1 r conflict. Russia, Poland, Greece, Turkey, and Sj tin have been almost steadily engaged. Many more lives have been I t on the battlefields of Europe since November, 1918, than the Unit d tates h t in the world war conflict during the nineteen months ^i our pai ticipation. Only on the seas has peace continued. But we knowthat Japan's navy is increasing steadily and it is not unnatui | — sidering her inaccessibility and the certainty that no nati n will attack her, to wonder why, unless she intends some dav to make h crself the a: . ressor in a war Reading history now, we can see what we did not see clearlv re the smoke had fairly cleared away in 1918—that war has h% ' he normal, peace the abnormal state of the world I take* n \ i* in the doctrine sometimes advanced that war is a desirable tl

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it develops the virtues of courage and decision ai 1 h l r ) " fibre of a nation that tends to grow soft in time of peace O u ii lividual lives < ill on ns so aistantly for com ' ancj'( m our country I ippens to be at wa> ,,i „ o t j t i , 0 w|;