our hearts, that
salute his coming in joy at the supreme grandeur
of America's might enrolled under the standard of
right. This idea M. Viviani, just back from
America, splendidly developed in his eloquent
speech to the Chamber in the presence of General
Pershing.

"General Pershing himself, less dramatic, has
given us in three phrases devoid of artificiality
an impression of exceptionally virile force. It
was no rhetoric, but the pure simplicity of the
soldier who is here to act and who fears to
promise more than he will perform. No bad sign
this for those of us who have grown weary of
pompous words, when we must pay so dearly for each
failure of performance.

"Not long ago the Germans laughed at 'the
contemptible English army' and we hear now that
they regard the American army as too ridiculous
for words. Well, the British have taught even
Hindenburg himself what virile force can do toward
filling gaps in organization. Now the arrival of
Pershing brings Hindenburg news that the Americans
are setting to work in their turn--those Americans
whose performance in the war of secession showed
them capable of such 'improvisation' of war as the
world has never seen--and I think the Kaiser must
be beginning to wonder whether he has not trusted
rather blindly in his 'German tribal god.' He has
loosed the lion from its cage, and now finds that
the lion has teeth and claws to rend him.

"The Kaiser had given us but a few weeks in which
to realize that the success of his submarine
campaign would impose the silence of terror on the
human conscience throughout the world. Well,
painful as he must find it, Pershing's arrival in
Paris, with its consequent military action, cannot
fail to prove to him that, after all, the moral
forces he ignored must always be taken into
consideration in forecasting human probabilities.
Those learned Boches have yet to understand that
in the course of his intellectual evolution man
has achieved the setting of moral right above
brute force; that might is taking its stand besi