| Show I I WANT TO BE FRIENDLY I FRance Anxious to Establish Franco c t American Relations i t Paris July Copyrighted 1000 by 1 the Associated Prsshla week has been most eventful and one of deep significance sig-nificance to all observing Americans Ii Indications have not been lacking during i dur-ing tho past year of tho anxiety of the Ii Fronoh Government and tho French i I II f press to obliterate the unfriendly feeling j 1 I toward France aroused in America by h the alleged hostile altitude of this country 1 coun-try toward the United States In the war with Spain and the endeavor toby I to-by every means In their II power reestablish 9 1 rees-tablish FrancoAmerican relations on a moro friendly basis These efforts I I I t have been attended by a most satisfac Ii I tory measure of success and the par i ticipation of the French Government In It I and the exceptionally cordial tone or the French press toward the Washington L III and Fourth of July fetes have given an nJ unmistakable stamp to the direction of lreotonoC i 1 Frances foreign policy American functionaries here in their I contact with the ofilcial world have boon brought to share in the conviction that France Is sincerely desirous of I securing the good will of America Archbishop Ireland speaking to a rep spenklng i I rcsontallvo of the Associated Press on the subject of lie Washington and La fayette presentations said I can tes tify that they have had u remarkably good effect on the ol peoplo of Frunce ot They have opened IHLe their hearts to u Sand S-and they have found that the American Nation are apeople of sentiment and j not merely a commercial people rue action taken this week by 1r 1 fiervllle Reache ono of the representa 1 lives In the Chamber of Deputies for 1 101 Guadaloupe Indicates that thegood ef fect produced among Frenchmen by the American sympathy displayed at these fetes may bring forth practical fruits He has uubllshed an practcal artcle In the jfl Eclalre an Influential organ suggest ing that stops be takdn for the forma tion of a society for the promotion of a FrancoAmerican alliance proposing that exMinister Lon i Bourgelo J i I made president Several Informal meetIng f meet-Ing have been held and a convention r I Avlll shortly be formed The first public action will be convocation of n mass meeting at the end of autumn when society returns to Paris from the county coun-ty season |
