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World WarsThe Capture Of DunAfter the Americans had cleared the Saint Mihiel salient, Mar... I Knew You Would Come We are all very proud that America was permitted to have a sh... The United States Marines Our flag's unfurled to every breeze From dawn to setti... President Wilson In France On December 14, 1918, President Wilson arrived in Paris. He ... At The Front What one soldier writes, millions have experienced. At f... The Second Line Of Defense In Norwich, England, stands a memorial which will forever be ... Joyce Kilmer The first poet and author in the American army to give up his... Alsace-lorraine On slight pretext, Germany in 1864 and in 1866 had made wars ... The Kaiser's Crown (VERSAILLES, JANUARY 18, 1871) The wind on the Thames ... America Enters The War SPEECH BY LLOYD GEORGE, BRITISH PREMIER, APRIL 12, 1917 ... Where The Four Winds Meet There are songs of the north and songs of the south, A... To Wish To Take Away One From The Immortal Glory Which Belongs to the Allied armies, nor from the undying gratitude which we o... U S Destroyer _osmond C Ingram_ If you were standing on the deck of a patrol boat watching fo... Why The United States Entered The War The United States was slow to enter the war, because her peop... The Lost Battalion On December 24, 1918, Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Whittlese... A Congressional Message FROM PRESIDENT WILSON'S ANNUAL ADDRESS TO CONGRESS DECEMBE... The Poilu The soldier of France, the poilu, is a crusader. He is fight... Duty So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man... When The Tide Turned THE AMERICAN ATTACK AT CHATEAU-THIERRY AND BELLEAU WOOD IN TH... In Memoriam [THE FIGHTING YEARS, 1914-1918] Ring out, wild bells, ... |
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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