is safe to say that from this agreement which Senator Hoar called
"the most important political transaction that has ever taken place
upon the face of the earth," and from this band of Pilgrims, has come
in the three centuries leading up to world democracy a greater
influence for freedom and liberty than from any other single source in
the affairs of men.

How singular that this compact and the armistice with Germany, which is
without doubt the most significant transaction between men in all
recorded history, should both have been signed on November 11! It has
been suggested that hereafter November 11, instead of the last Thursday
in November, should be set aside as Thanksgiving Day. It certainly
should be forever a day of thanksgiving even if it is not made
officially Thanksgiving Day.

Sunday night, November 10, the whole world waited in breathless
suspense. The armistice conditions had been considered by the German
government at a late sitting in Berlin on Sunday afternoon. Hard as
they were, the government decided to accept them and telephoned
instructions to Spa, the headquarters of the German army, authorizing
the German delegates to sign the papers. The messenger was waiting at
Spa to carry the information to the German representatives who were at
Chateau de Francfort with Marshal Foch and Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss,
first lord of the British navy. He reached them at about two o'clock
on Monday morning, November 11, and after some discussion the armistice
was signed at five o'clock, to become effective six hours later.

Saturday and Sunday, November 9 and 10, the whole world stopped,
looked, and listened. Nothing just like it had happened before in the
history of mankind. The world is constantly growing smaller as men
overcome the difficulty of getting quickly from place to place, and
peoples are thereby getting nearer to each other, so that whatever
happens to one is of immediate interest to all others. The following
description of Sunday night and Monday morning in a newspaper office in
a small Massachusetts city is a graphic and interesting account of
scenes that were being enacted at the same time all over the world.

WAITING FOR THE FLASH

Not at once can the mind grasp the full significance of the wonderful
event of Monday, and as time goes on, more and more will the world come
to realize what the signing of the armistice which ended the war means
to present and future generations. Events