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World WarsU S Destroyer _osmond C Ingram_If you were standing on the deck of a patrol boat watching fo... To Villingen--and Back Very remarkable in the world struggle for liberty was the eag... In Memoriam [THE FIGHTING YEARS, 1914-1918] Ring out, wild bells, ... Duty So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man... Redeemed Italy Italy, since 1860 at least, has cherished the dream that some... When The Tide Turned THE AMERICAN ATTACK AT CHATEAU-THIERRY AND BELLEAU WOOD IN TH... The Unspeakable Turk Although the great issues of the war were decided, and victor... After-days When the last gun has long withheld Its thunder, and i... Trees I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. ... The Fleet That Lost Its Soul Sailors and especially fighters on the sea have in all ages p... Sergeant York Of Tennessee People will always differ as to what was the most remarkable ... Why The United States Entered The War The United States was slow to enter the war, because her peop... Pershing At The Tomb Of Lafayette They knew they were fighting our war. As the months gr... America Enters The War SPEECH BY LLOYD GEORGE, BRITISH PREMIER, APRIL 12, 1917 ... The Capture Of Dun After the Americans had cleared the Saint Mihiel salient, Mar... Vive La France 1 The determination of the people of Alsace and Lorraine not ... The Little Old Road There's a breath of May in the breeze On the little ol... The Yank The boche went into the war as a robber, the poilu as a crusa... The Turning Of The Tide A division of marines and other American troops were rushed t... The Lost Battalion On December 24, 1918, Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Whittlese... |
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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