Show Memento M I 1 r Copied from the New York Sun In the twenty years between two j wars unnumbered thousands of AmI American American Am Am- AmI I I tourists visited Rethondes a crossroads in the forest II where the armistice of 1918 was sign sign- ed A statue of FOCH artisan of victory victory victory vic vic- tory looked down upon the the scene On a siding sheltered by a simple d 1 wooden shed later replaced with a I marble one stood the dining car in I I which the German German e signed I II I the surrender There There was was a German I II I imperial imperial eagle of cast bronze with witha j a French sword struck through its I breast and a bronze tablet with an inscription which began Here on November 11 1 1918 18 arrogance w was s It I Another armistice has been I I there and since then the railway car with its marble shelter the bronze I eagle and the tablet have been re- re re-I re j I moved Weeds now grow in their place Only the statue of Foch re- re remains re- re mains looking down on desolation If the spirit of FOCH inhabits the statue statue- a as spirits have been w wont nt to do from the time of f the Egyptians I and the ancient Greeks Greeks- one can easily imagine its reflections This Was not the place place only only a few miles from Paris Paris Paris- for Cor the German surrender surrender surrender der it should have on the other side I of the Rhine And when a nation erects monuments s to victory It itis is careful to surround them with an invisible guard General PERSHING commander of the American Expeditionary Force agreed with FOCH FOCH- and let it be added with PETAIN PETAIN- that the armistice armistice armi arms II stice ought not to be pe singed until the German Army had at least been driven from French soil The world would have been spared many calamities calamities calam- calam i if the the surrender had taken place I at t Frankfort F Instead of Rethondes I II |