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In Paris, at a great dinner given in his honor, he was welcomed by
President Poincare in the following words:--

_Mr. President_: Paris and France awaited you with impatience. They
were eager to acclaim in you the illustrious democrat whose words and
deeds were inspired by exalted thought, the philosopher delighting in
the solution of universal laws from particular events, the eminent
statesman who had found a way to express the highest political and
moral truths in formulas which bear the stamp of immortality.

They had also a passionate desire to offer thanks, in your person, to
the great Republic of which you are the chief for the invaluable
assistance which had been given spontaneously, during this war, to the
defenders of right and liberty.

Even before America had resolved to intervene in the struggle she had
shown to the wounded and to the orphans of France a solicitude and a
generosity the memory of which will always be enshrined in our hearts.
The liberality of your Red Cross, the countless gifts of your
fellow-citizens, the inspiring initiative of American women,
anticipated your military and naval action, and showed the world to
which side your sympathies inclined. And on the day when you flung
yourselves into the battle with what determination your great people
and yourself prepared for united success!

Some months ago you cabled to me that the United States would send
ever-increasing forces, until the day should be reached on which the
Allied armies were able to submerge the enemy under an overwhelming
flow of new divisions; and, in effect, for more than a year a steady
stream of youth and energy has been poured out upon the shores of
France.

No sooner had they landed than your gallant battalions, fired by their
chief, General Pershing, flung themselves into the combat with such a
manly contempt of danger, such a smiling disregard of death, that our
longer experience of this terrible war often moved us to counsel
prudence. They brought with them, in arriving here, the enthusiasm of
Crusaders leaving for the Holy Land.

It is their right today to look with pride upon the work accomplished
and to rest assured that they have powerfully aided by their courage
and their faith.

Eager as they were to meet the enemy, they did not know when they
arrived the enormity of his crimes. That they might know how the
German armies make war it has been necessa