h.

"The French flag floats to-day from the staff of the White House and
America is happy to do honor to that flag."

A similar statement was made by Great Britain's ambassador, the Earl of
Reading, who declared that Bastile Day was also being celebrated
throughout the British Empire.

The climax came when Ambassador Jusserand spoke:

"Your national fete and ours have the same
meaning: Emancipation. The ideal they represent is
so truly the same, that it is no wonder, among the
inspiring events in which we live, that France
celebrated the other day your Fourth and you are
now celebrating our Fourteenth. We owe so much to
each other in our progress toward Freedom.

"Those enthusiastic French youths who served under
Washington, Rochambeau and Lafayette had seen
liberty and equality put into practice, and had
brought back to France the seed, which sown at an
opportune moment, sprang up and grew wonderfully.

"The two greatest events in our histories are
closely connected. Between the end of your
revolution and the beginning of ours, there
elapsed only six years. Our flag, devised the day
after the fall of the Bastile, combining the same
colors as your own, is just a little younger than
your Old Glory, born in revolutionary times. And
the two, floating for the first time together over
the trenches of distant France, defying the
barbaric enemy, have much to say to each other,
much about the past, much about the future.

"United as we are with the same firmness of
purpose, we shall advance our standards and cause
the enemy to understand that the best policy is
honesty, respect of others' freedom and respect of
the sworn pledge.

"That song of freedom, the 'Marseillaise' will
again be sung at the place of its birth, that
Alsatian song born in Strassburg, justifying its
original title, a 'War song of the Rhine.'

"The place where he shall stop is not, however,
written on the map, but in our hearts, a kind of
map the enemy has been unable to decipher. But
what is written is plain enough, and President
Wilson is even plainer in his memorable speech at