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Show SAN MARINO IS LIVING PROOF THAT PEACE ENDURES. Founded by a man whose parting prayer was thut It never should Increase In-crease Its territory by violence, San Marino emerges upon tho map of tho new Kurope, from which empires are disappearing and new nations aro outlined. out-lined. With, Gormuny crippled nnd laid low by on oxnetly opposite ambition, am-bition, San Marino remains as an enduring en-during monument to her Ideal. This tiny nntlon, "our littlest nlly." Is described by Alice Hobo In a com-munlcntlon com-munlcntlon to tho National Geographic Geograph-ic society, as follows: "Tho position of Ban Marino, 111 miles from Hlmlnl, Is slngulnr. This llttlo republic, whose greatest length Is nlno miles, Is completely surrounded surround-ed by Italy, who respects Its autonomy, auton-omy, ob hnvo rulers of tho past with a fow fleeting exceptions, slnco the pious Dalmatian stonecutter loft tho mountain to his followors, "free from every other man." "That this llttlo republic, which today to-day has 11,000 Inhabitants and an. nron of 33 souaro miles, has maintained main-tained Its Independence, Its ideal of liberty, in the midst of strlfo and bloodshed, of changing social condition, condi-tion, for sixteen centuries, adds dig nlty to tbo jnwaverlng Wef of tho trusting ones In tho ncvcrccnslng pro jH tectlon of tho saintly founder. H "In tho lifo of tho republic today the BH Influcnco of tho Dalmatian oalnt la Hfl strongly reflected. For a country to jBfl mnlntnln the characteristics of Its BBB primitive founder 1b n social pbenom- BH enon of which possibly San Marino Bfl alone can boast H "During tho days of'Clirlstlan per- BBB seditions, In tho middle of tho Fourth BBB century, Marino nnd Leo, two stone- Bfl cutters of Arbo, Dnlmnttn, crossed BBB tho Adriatic and enmo to Hlmlnl. BBB Their reason, says tradition, wna to BBB aid Clirlstlans, condemned by pagnn BBB rulers, to reconstruct tho walls of that BBB BBB "Tho wnlls of Hlmlnl bnvlng been M finished, Leo nnd Mnrlno looked long- Hfl Ingly upon tho solltudo of tho two BBB mountains. As tlio hermits of the BBB Thchnld, who flourished at this some .BBB period, they sought pence nnd solitude BBB In thoso Impenetrable heights. Hew- Hfl lug n bed from the rock and cultlvnt- iBBB lug n llttlo garden, Mnrlno found nil H his material wants supplied. This H rough bed and site of tho garden nre H pointed out today by reverent pens BBB nnts. A few slaves followed their H former overseers In order to practice, H undisturbed, their Christian faith. BBB "Marino's dcslra wns to found a H freo society, based upon liberty, Jus- BBB tlce, simplicity, charity, virtue, and, BBB nbovo nil, of lovo of peace. When the H good man camo to dlo ho called his BBB followers nbout him nnd bequeathed BBb to them his mountain, 'freo from every jBBf other man.' Ills pnrtlng prayer was H that they never seek enlargement of BB territory by violent means. War, BBfl though a painful necessity for thoso BBv nctlng In self-defense, was an un- H pardonable crime In thoso who caused It. Hogging his followers to remain BH tmo to tho fntth and to live In perfect jB accord, freemen nil, ho passed nway, ;BBfl llttlo dreaming that In the Twentieth BBf century his llttlo community would H stnnd, n monument to Ms peaceful BBS teachings apd slmplo form of govern- BBfl ment, In tho midst of a war-torn BBv world." H |