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Purely as memorials to the dead which they contain, the cemeteries require attention. But they are more than memorials; they are American claims on France's affection. Neglected graves are soon forgotten, but fresh, well cared for ones can never be. Thirty thousand headstones, tended by native Frenchmen, should do more toward promoting peace than a dozen disarmament conferences. Major Foster says, "...Nothing could be more impressive than the peaceful effect of the modest white stones showing against the green turf under the shade of protecting trees." It is the French, not the Americans, who will be the more impressed...
...Germans ignore the French, they pretend that the Frenchmen are not there. On several occasions I have seen a German walk down the streets of Cologne, with his head in the air, scornfully oblivious of a group of poilus standing in his way. Collision was inevitable, and in every case, I saw the poilus draw aside with a grin to let the German pass...
...weakly that the Tsar was guilty. Rasputine was guilty, this man and that woman were guilty, but never do we admit that we.were all guilty of the blackest treason to our God, our Emperor, our country." Coming on top of the statement: "... when millions of men, Russians, Frenchmen, Belgians, Englishmen, were giving up their lives in the cause of freedom, the aristocracy of the Russian capital was indulging in a reckless orgy . . ." it is a fairly conclusive condemnation of Russian aristocracy, notoriously self-indulgent...
...post-impressionist sculptors who have received the critical accolade ? men whose work would be incomprehensible to a Canova or a Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids; Mestrovic, the Serbian; Archipenko...
...French statement to this effect is reported confirmed at a meeting of German railway men at Wiesbaden (April 18) "where several of them denied that they had been mishandled by Frenchmen. They bitterly complained, however, about the attitude of the German authorities, in non-occupied Germany, toward the railwaymen expelled by the French...