Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were, beside the American army, a great number of American men and women in France serving in the Red Cross, Knights of Columbus and other organizations. These people entered our homes, and we really did not look upon them as foreigners. We marveled ourselves at the common feeling of friendship which developed so quickly...
...there was such a deep feeling of gratitude for America's help in the War that minor disappointments became insignificant. Then too, the memory of our aid in the American Revolution, of the glorious part played by America in the Great War, and of the long record of friendship will always be a bond between the two peoples...
...military incident war with England was threatened over Fashoda, a mud village in the heart of Africa. Later, when diplomatic relations had been strengthened by the Entente Cordiale, came the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Tangiers with the ulterior object of testing the young Franco-British friendship. The visit caused the downfall of Delcassé, but his diplomatic triumph became evident in later years when Germany found that her filibustering attempts in Morocco had succeeded in alienating the whole world except obsequious Austria...
...point which he has stressed in every utterance is the need for "Keeping our friendship in repair". During the war France and America were more than allies-they were close friends, whose people grew to understand each other better than has ever been possible before or since. Even in the days of the American Revolution, when the Marquis de Lafayette came here to help in our fight for independence, there was no popular or personal friendship such as existed four years ago. But since the armistice an intangible barrier has arisen between the peoples. The French orphan is in danger...
...mark coast downhill; she wants to establish trade again with Germany under conditions more certain and less fluctuating and sporadic than they are now. Facing dangerous possibilities of the complete diplomatic face-about in Black Sea affairs,--Turkey's alliance with the arch enemy Russia,--England finds that her friendship with France needs a touch of cement to cover over the cracks left by Lloyd-George recent experiments in Asia Minor...