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Show FRENCH JUBILANT OVER PROSPECT OF AID FROM THE U. S. PARTS', March 22, 6 p. m. "Hurrah for our new allies!' said L. Marcelin, a well-known well-known political writer, in La Liberte today. to-day. This Is the note taken generally by the French press toward the United States. The news of -the call of President Wilson Wil-son for a special session of congress and the military and naval preparedness that are being made In that country occupy a dominant place in the public mind today. to-day. Every Frenchman who has an American acquaintance asks him when the United States is coming into the war. The Temps, in a sober review of the recent re-cent injuries Americans have suffered at the hands of the Germans, says: "Thus g-oes on in perfect calm the thoughtful evolution that has led the United States from neutrality, which seemed her only possible course during two years, to "the very' threshold of a state of war. It is inappreciable that this evolution was accomplished without our having done anything artificial or fictitious ficti-tious to provoke or accelerate It. It Is verily the American conscience that has thought and found its way. It is the American conscience tha.t has spoken in the voice of President Wilson. Never has a more solemn verdict broken German Insolence." The Temps alludes to the great aid the entente allies would have were trie suggestion sug-gestion of W. P. G. Harding, governor of the American federal reserve board, adopted regarding credits for the entente. |