Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-07 | Page 11 | Tribute is Paid the U. S

Burgomaster Max of Brussels Says America Saved Belgium. BRUSSELS, Belgium, Dec. 7. Herbert Her-bert C. Hoover, American food administrator admin-istrator and former head of the committee com-mittee for relief In Belgium, was the guest of honor tonight at a reception In tho city hall. Burgomaster Max, in a speech welcoming Mr. Hoovor to Brussels, of which city he was recently recent-ly elected a citizen, said in part: "In greoting tho friend of the Bel-" glan 'nation, I am interpreting tho feel-' Ings of eight million human beings saved from famine, exhaustion and death. When the torment3 were let loose on Belgium, our eyes turned to the United Slates. We knew that that great people would not allow justice to succumb, or permit civilization and the future of humanity tb become the playthings play-things of a preying race. "Our country twice was saved by yours, for tho intervention of tho American armies, which decided the result of the war and delivered our territory, would have freed nothing but a vast cemetery if it had 'not been preceded pre-ceded by the magnificent work to which the name of Hoovor will forever be attached."