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Show Usui sons - LETTER 1 HOI : --OF FLAG .if WASHINGTON. June t:5. President Wilson today scut the following- letter to Colonel John McTSlro.v, commander1, of the department of the Potomac, i Grand Army of the Republic. j "I wisSi -willi nil my heart tlint I could Ik; present at the loyalty demon-' strut ion which is being planned for the, evening of June M. I sliall certainly be )i c cnt in ppirit, though clreum- stances prevent my being present In i body. j "i''ortui;ately for us Americans, loy-j ally Is iiol so much a compulsion wf ' only as a compuWon of the heart, in I being loyal we nre true to ourselves. I lo the principles in which we .ire nurtured nur-tured and bred and wliich ive have long recognized :ts a true expression of our national character and purpose, and I believe that as t,hc years go by ' and the policy or the country develops, along consistent lines loyalty' will grow warmer ond warmer until it consumes! everything that is bnsc or hostile." j |