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just as she has always kept the faith with other nations. So the challenge from Japan is: We have stated the facts, America, concerning our position. XVill you accept them as true and believe in our honesty and sincerity? From the other side of the Atlantic there comes a last call to the American na- tion. This comes from France, as from friend to friend. France and America are the two countries in which. for the first time in modern history, democracy has reached its highest development under the form of a well organized and efficient republican government. They have fought together-they are bound by strong historical ties that have never been broken. During the past war the eonomic ties between the two coun- tries were much strengthened by the enormous amount of business transacted between them. Now that peace has been restored, commerce must be restored on a normal basis. Bcause the equilibrium of trade has been broken by the war, the value of French money has declined in American markets and unless conditions are improved it will be necessary for France to buy from other countries. According to France, there is only one sound solution to the problem of overcoming the difficulty of exchange-that of extending credits to France. How will America respond to this? YVill she answer as she has previously done: Lafayette, we are here ? Thus from the misty gray moors and fens of Great Britain: from the sunny slopes and fragrant vineyards of Italy: from devastated France: from the Land of the Cherry Blossoms comes the call to duty. Each breeze that sweeps the ocean- each incoming tide brings the message. just how America will answer remains to be seen. That she will answer, and, that led by a Higher Power, she will do the right, is the belief of every true patriot. lNIany are the dangers besetting her pathway. All the difficulties and the prob- lems cannot be settled in a day. No! Nor in many days. Our brothers' keeper? Yes, for such is America's place among the nations. And as the sun of peace ascends higher and ever higher, the prayer that rises from every heart and from every fireside may be expressed in those words so aptly and beautifully uttered by Longfellow: Thou, too, sail on, U Ship of State! Sail on, America, strong and great. Humanity with all its fears W'ith all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! 1 M. C. D., '20. Page Ezghty-eiglzl

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