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World WarsThe Fleet That Lost Its SoulSailors and especially fighters on the sea have in all ages p... The Capture Of Dun After the Americans had cleared the Saint Mihiel salient, Mar... Song Of The Aviator (This poem was written for an entertainment given by the Y.M.... Alsace-lorraine On slight pretext, Germany in 1864 and in 1866 had made wars ... After-days When the last gun has long withheld Its thunder, and i... The Quality Of Mercy There is an old saying, Like king, like people, which means t... The Poilu The soldier of France, the poilu, is a crusader. He is fight... Blocking The Channel Bruges is an important city of Belgium made familiar to Ameri... United States Day United States Day was celebrated in Paris on April 20, 1918. ... The Tommy John Masefield, the English writer, says, St. George did not ... The Kaiser's Crown (VERSAILLES, JANUARY 18, 1871) The wind on the Thames ... The Secret Service The United States did not declare war till nearly three years... To Villingen--and Back Very remarkable in the world struggle for liberty was the eag... America Comes In We are coming from the ranch, from the city and the mine, ... The First To Fall In Battle During the trench warfare, it was customary to raid the enemy... Duty So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man... The Lost Battalion On December 24, 1918, Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Whittlese... Vive La France 1 The determination of the people of Alsace and Lorraine not ... Harry Lauder Sings Harry Lauder, an extremely popular Scotch singer and entertai... The United States At War--at Home When any nation declares war, it immediately brings upon itse... |
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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