Show AMBASSADOR LAUDS I fRENCH HEROISM I I i IN WAR i I Hugh C. C Wallace allace Speaker I at Thanksgiving Dinner Dinner Dinner Din Din- ner in Paris Parisi i By Associated Press Prell PARIS DARIS Nov 27 Three Three hundred Americans celebrated Thanksgiving by I dining together at the Hotel DOrsaL DOrsaI some of ot their distinguished French friends joining them Alexander Alexander Alexan Alexan- der l governor of ot Alsace had accepted an invitation In to represent tho the Fr French government but was detained in Strasbourg Louis former pr premier who spoke in his stead expressed ex- ex expressed expressed ex ex- pressed warmly Frances France's appreciation of ot Americas America's intimate friendship Troopers of ot the republican guard In ln j dr dress ss uniform and with drawn sabers were stationed behind the guest tables Dr Ernest II no Lines president of tho of-tho tho American club of ot Paris before IntroducIng introducing introducing intro Intro- the speakers of ot the evening said in part We Ve meet tonight on the eve of ot another another an an- other Thanksgiving day and in ln the midst of prevailing unrest We Ve may ask ourselves why we are giving thanks Just thanks just as perhaps those ancestors ancestors ancestors ances ances- tors of ours who first landed on Plymouth Rock may have asked themselves themselves them them- selves elves why they were thankful after atter their precarious and arduous voyage oage It n. was not simply for tor material com comfort tort and good but they were thankful that their principles had survived and so sowe sowe sowe we here feel that the victory which has haa been won is for the triumph of ot treat mat principles and cause for tor thanksgiving thanksgiving thanks thanks- giving tonight and for tor future years AMBASSADOR SPEAKS Hugh C. C Wallace the American ambassador am am- after atter alluding to his thankfulness thank thank- for the progress of ot President Wilson toward recovery from his ill illness illness ill ill- ness DeI said To my friends of ot France I would recall that after alter the battle of ot SalamIs wl wh which kh h saved the civilization of the West from an Eastern attack the commanders commanders commanders com com- manders of the Greeks voted to choose from their Dumber cumber him who had most contributed to the victory Each commander commander commander com com- mander apparently voted for tor himself as s is the wont of human nature but all voted for tor While perhaps each of ot the allied and associated powers might feel constraIned constrained constrained con con- strained to say a wordin behalf of itself they would after atter the first and second Marne battles acclaim France Just as the Greek generals acclaimed France did not want war She withdrew rew her troops ten kilometers from ithe the frontier in order to prevent a border Incident but when an implacable enemy forced her In self defense to Oraw the sword she drew It without hesitation and offered herself herself herself her her- self a a. willing sacrifice The sacrifice was tremendous the victory over over- whelming FOES FALLEN The Tho ambitious monarch who de declared declared declared de- de war Is a fugitive and an exile from hIs bis country HI His throne created by the sword and supported by the bayonet has been overthrown and a I republic has been raised by a dejected p people ople upon the ruins ruins' of of ot an empire The Germans know what they had don In France and In the hour of de defeat defeat de- de feat teat took counsel of ot their greatest fear tear the the fear tear of ot vengeance and retribution To keep the allied army out of Germ Ger- Ger m ny they surrendered at once their hopes their honor and their army Gott mitt uns' uns was as henceforth to be translated Safety first I Thus It was that while northern I France Dance was devastated the German territory and frontiers remained un- un soothed Thus it was that the AmerIcan American Amerlean Amer Amer- I ican lean troops marching from victorious France into conquered Germany exchanged ex- ex ex exchanged I ex-I changed a scene of ot desolation for tor forland aland no a land which bore no marks of war and I I where nothing had been destroyed but honor GRATITUDE EXPRESSED We Ve were grateful to France which I sustained the cause of ot liberty in the United States The world Is grateful to France which has sustained the I cause caul of liberty In the Old World orld and throughout lt the world Truer is it to today today today to- to day that ever before and it has been recognized ever since Thomas Jefferson Jeffer Jeffer- son first said it every It-every every man has two countries his own and France and in addressing you ou and congratulating you and thinking you I find it difficult not to address you as my fellow tellow coun coun- i I Ambassador Wallace Vallace In conclusion I IsaId said that the fruits of ot victory must be I gathered by work If It we all he declared in our several several several sev sev- I eral ways accept the gospel of ot work your our world and my world will be I saved for toda today as never before our salvation is not only prayer is ls not only faith It faith It is ls work |