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World WarsThe United States MarinesOur flag's unfurled to every breeze From dawn to setti... The Really Invincible Armada The northern coast of Scotland is about as far north as the s... In Memoriam [THE FIGHTING YEARS, 1914-1918] Ring out, wild bells, ... Blocking The Channel Bruges is an important city of Belgium made familiar to Ameri... Why The United States Entered The War The United States was slow to enter the war, because her peop... A Carol From Flanders 1914 In Flanders on the Christmas morn The trench... Harry Lauder Sings Harry Lauder, an extremely popular Scotch singer and entertai... Nations Born And Reborn In America, and in many other countries, people have listened... Trees I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. ... Vive La France 1 The determination of the people of Alsace and Lorraine not ... Redeemed Italy Italy, since 1860 at least, has cherished the dream that some... Joyce Kilmer The first poet and author in the American army to give up his... President Wilson In France On December 14, 1918, President Wilson arrived in Paris. He ... Waiting For The Flash Not at once can the mind grasp the full significance of the w... The Capture Of Dun After the Americans had cleared the Saint Mihiel salient, Mar... To Wish To Take Away One From The Immortal Glory Which Belongs to the Allied armies, nor from the undying gratitude which we o... The Second Line Of Defense In Norwich, England, stands a memorial which will forever be ... Sergeant York Of Tennessee People will always differ as to what was the most remarkable ... Four Soldiers THE BOCHE The boche was chiefly what his masters made him.... November 11 1918 Sinners are said sometimes to repent and change their ways at... |
When The Tide TurnedTHE AMERICAN ATTACK AT CHATEAU-THIERRY AND BELLEAU WOOD IN THE FIRST WEEK OF JUNE, 1918 BY OTTO H. KAHN AN ADDRESS AT THE UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN MEETING OF THE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, NOVEMBER 12, 1918 WHY THE TIDE WAS FATED TO TURN These are soul-stirring days. To live through them is a glory and a solemn joy. The words of the poet resound in our hearts: God's in His heaven, all's right with the world. Events have shaped themselves in accordance with the eternal law. Once again the fundamental lesson of all history is borne in upon the world, that evil--though it may seem to triumph for a while--carries within it the seed of its own dissolution. Once again it is revealed to us that the God-inspired soul of man is unconquerable and that the power, however formidable, which challenges it is doomed to go down in defeat. A righteous cause will not only stand unshaken through trials and discomfiture, but it will draw strength from the very setbacks which it may suffer. A wrongful cause can only stand as long as it is buoyed up by success. The German people were sustained by a sheer obsession akin to the old-time belief in the potent spell of the black arts that their military masters were invulnerable and invincible, that by some power--good or evil, they did not care which--they had been made so, and that the world was bound to fall before them. The nation was immensely strong only as long as that obsession remained unshaken. With its destruction by a series of defeats which were incapable of being explained as strategic retreats, their morale crumbled and finally collapsed, because it was not sustained, as that of the Allies was sustained in the darkest days of the war, by the faith that they were fighting for all that men hold most sacred. To those who were acquainted with German mentality and psychology, it had been manifest all along that when the end foreordained did come, it would come with catastrophic suddenness. Next: Where The Tide Turned Previous: The Soldiers Who Go To Sea
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