Show An Editorial Inspired by the News of the Day Ten Years After the War I German Veterans Salute at Memorial to Americas America's s Heroic War Dead as Bands Play Star Star Spangled Spangled Banner and Die Wacht Am Rhein I L 1 4 I A I 7 r t 4 C ii 4 i I S jI 4 4 c t. b I S cI- cI cIA A I S Ten years ago the armies of the United States and ald Germany were locked in a deadly embrace on the tho crimsoned fields of France Blood flowed like water men died like mee flies files The Tho clouds clouds' of of t black hatred rolled back from the scenes of war wreck and nd ruin had shadowed the thoughts of both the American people and the German Germon peo pea pie T TAnd And now if It you please look at the picturE above I n nIt It shows the crew of the transatlantic airplane Bremen standing at salute before the statue of the Eternal Light in Madison Square New York the metropolis metropolis' memorial to the men who fell in the war with German Germany Standing with his back to the camera is Baron Gunther von Huenefeld German German German Ger Ger- man World war war veteran representative of the Junkers and onetime friend of Kaiser Wilhelm II At the left is Captain Hermann Koehl also a German German German Ger Ger- man veteran at the right is Major James Fitzmaurice Fitzmaurice Fitz- Fitz maurice of the Irish free state air force The monument commemorates the deeds of men who fought against Baron von yon Huenefeld and Captain Captain Cap Cap- tam tain Koehl It bears such names as Aisne Oise Olse Meuse and Argonne names that sounded the knell for Germanys Germany's greatest war struggle A light is kept forever burning in it so that tho the country y may not forget what American bo boys s 's died for a decade ago Yet standing at salute before lefore t it are are two patriotic patriotic patriotic pa pa- Germans The band Is playing the Star SUr Spangled Banner a few minutes ago It was bl blar r- r ing out Die Wacht acht am Rhein and AmerIcans Americans Americans Amer Amer- were cheering themselves hoarse German flags are flying beside the Stars and Stripes on all the streets 5 5 5 What has happened in the last ten years Where did we get this friendship We Ve got it partly because both the American people and the German people are fair and cannot cannot cannot can can- not harbor a grudge But its present outpouring comes conies because of heroism oldest of all the vir vir- vir- vir tues Heroism knows no nationality but makes its fatherland wherever it finds itself The two Germans who rode across the sea with death at their thir heels are kin to the youngsters whose whose- deaths are commemorated by the Eternal Light Joining hands with them at this moment they unite in friendship the two nations The aviators are better men men than the diplo diplo- mats First there was Lindbergh to link France and America anew Then there was Chamberlin splendidly daring to reintroduce us to Germany And now there are Baron von Huenefeld and Captain Captain Cap Cap- tam tain Koehl to cement the bonds and make them lasting A few thousand miles of distance do not matter matter matter mat mat- ter neither do differences in language and cus cus- tom toni There is a latent brotherhood between all men We are arc commonly too blind to see sec it but the daring glamorous knights of the air can make it plain to 10 us We are deeply in their debt They are pointing the way to everlasting harmony an and peace |