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Show 1 jPershing Predicts Close Relationship With French People PARIS. Sept. 1 General Pershing at a meeting with representatives of the French press this morning bade farewell to the journalists. The American Amer-ican commander-in-chief made this statement : "More than two yean ago I arrived in Paris with a small group of officers r.nd men as the advance guard of our army. Since that day a vast host of Americans have come to France,llved among her people and returned tj their homes. "If it Ls possible for different nations na-tions to understand each other, then we feel that we earn- back with us an appreciation of France and its people, Its art and its culture Our soldier-found soldier-found their relaxation in Paris, along the rivers of the Pyrenees and the moon tahlB. They have shared with the! wonderful peasantry of France their I sorrows and their joys They have ! fought, suffered and died besicb the potlus and rejoiced with them in the final victory Such a ralngMn rr r.. pies in a common cause Is unprecedented unpreced-ented in the history of the .0 , taking our departure we have one n Igret that the people who have for-merly for-merly known us only as guests and visitors are without knowledge of the1 home life of the Americans. None of us will ever foriret that 'pex of the war when the American 1 ire gin j fores were assembled and trained for j W 'battle under the protection of the j J I armies of France and England, holding the enemy at ba.1 Nor "Ul wo ever MJ forKet that moment of tho struggl when we found our opportunity to join ";! .with the world in Hie second battled lihe Marne All this is now past, but j it is upon i he pat that the foundaiioi p of our future relations must rest. In saying coodbye to France which w have come 'o love so well I feel a- j M sured that, as time goes on, we shall ifa regard those days of comradeship of struggle more and more as an overlap- inc; bond between our peoples." nn I - ! |