He found, will give our mingled blood
To wash that brutish stain away
From Lille and Laon and St. Dié.

And St. Dié!

IV

Dear is this village of the Vosges
List'ning afar the Marne's éloge,
And to herself repeating o'er

The word she whisp'ring spoke before
All others in the world- a word
That all the planet since has heard -
America!" Here was the spring
Of our loved country's christening;
Here in this cloistered scholar's haunt
Was our New World baptismal font
Now scarred and blackened by the guns
Of Europe's scientific Huns.

America, from that same bowl
Thou'lt be baptized anew in soul;
But not by water, by the fire
Of thine own sacrosanct desire
For right, flashing in carmine spray
From Lille to Laon and St. Dié.

V

Lille, Laon and St. Dié!

Our battle front, as theirs to-day
Who fight for France, all unafraid

Of death, weary but undismayed,
To help push back the green-gray line
That it may never leave the Rhine
Again to menace all the good

Of long-dreamed human brotherhood.
Here shall our France-befriended land
Take now its sacrificial stand;

Fight for a free humanity,

Conquer this welt insanity

And our great debt to France repay

At Lille, and Laon and St. Dié.

THE NAME OF FRANCE1

HENRY VAN DYKE

GIVE us a name to fill the mind

With the shining thoughts that lead mankind,
The glory of learning, the joy of art,

A name that tells of a splendid part

In the long, long toil and the strenuous fight
Of the human race to win its way

From the feudal darkness into the day
Of Freedom, Brotherhood, Equal Right,
A name like a star, a name of light.
I give you France!

Give us a name to stir the blood

With a warmer glow and a swifter flood,

At the touch of a courage that knows not fear,

1 From "The Red Flower "; copyright 1916, 1917, by Charles Scribner's Sons. By permission of the publishers.

A name like the sound of a trumpet, clear,
And silver-sweet, and iron-strong,

That calls three million men to their feet,
Ready to march, and steady to meet

The foes who threaten that name with wrong,
A name that rings like a battle-song.
I give you France!

Give us a name to move the heart

With the strength that noble griefs impart,
A name that speaks of the blood outpoured
To save mankind from the sway of the sword, -
A name that calls on the world to share
In the burden of sacrificial strife

Where the cause at stake is the world's free life
And the rule of the people everywhere, —

A name like a vow, a name like a prayer.
I give you France!

THE CONDITIONS OF PEACE

Part of address delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress, January 8, 1918

WOODROW WILSON

It will be our wish and purpose that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open and that they shall involve and permit henceforth no secret understandings of any kind. The day of conquest and aggrandizement is gone by; so is also the day of

secret covenants entered into in the interest of particular governments and likely at some unlooked-for moment to upset the peace of the world. It is this happy fact, now clear to the view of every public man whose thoughts do not still linger in an age that is dead and gone, which makes it possible for every nation whose purposes are consistent with justice and the peace of the world to avow now or at any other time the objects it has in view.

We entered this war because violations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secured once for all against their recurrence. What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest, and for our own part we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us. The program of the world's peace, therefore, is our program; and that program, the only possible program, as we see it, is this:

I. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.

II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas,

outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.

III. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.

IV. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.

V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.

VI. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest coöperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distin