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Show MARQUIS TELLS OF UNITY OF PURPOSE PARIS, July 3. Marquis de Cham-brun, Cham-brun, grandson of LaFayctte of revolutionary revolu-tionary fame, speaking on the subject of Independence day said to the Associated Asso-ciated Press: "The ties existing between France and the United States are In the annals an-nals of history the most striking example exam-ple of an alliance of peoples. Theso lies do not rest on mere treaty stipulations. stipu-lations. Their origin goes back lo a spontaneous outburst of popular sympathy sym-pathy a century and a half ago. "When General LaFayctte wrote to explain his having gone to America to fight for independence lines afterwards after-wards engraved upon his monument in Union square, (as soon as I heard of American independence my heart was enlisted') ho expressed in advance what was to bo a lasting sentiment between be-tween the two nations. "America and France have not established es-tablished their alliance on common interests in-terests or upon reciprocal advantages which years are liable to alter or modify. mod-ify. The two liberty-loving nations have placed In their ideal of liberty the basis of their mutual esteem and permanent friendship. On dates we are only a few days apart in tho month of July, America and Franco celebrate their national holiday in which both commemorate freedom. Freedom and independence for one and fundamental individual political liberties for the other, and today, while America's armies ar-mies are on our battlefields fighting with us and our glorious allies enlisted for the defense of our soil in the noblest no-blest cause, we rejoice to think that our parliament and government have deemed it proper to say to American soldiers and to the American people: " 'Independence day is a national holiday hol-iday in France; a commemoration of freedom ever victorious.' " oo |