And this- America, as we now see, has been challenged from the
first of this war by the strong arm of a power that has no sympathy
with our purpose and wiU not hesitate to destroy us if the law that
we respect, that rights that are to us sacred, or the spirit that we
have, stand across her set will to make this world bow before her
policies, backed by her organized and scientific miht^y system.
fee world of Christ— a neglected but not a rejected Chnst— -has
come again face to face with the world of Mahomet, who willed to

win by force. , . , . ^^ ^ i,*

With this background of history and in this sense, then we tight

^]ES7of Belgium— invaded, outraged,, enslaved, impoverished
Belgium We can not forget Liege, Louvam, and Cardmal Mercier.
TrSislated into terms of American history, these names stand tor
Bunker Hill, Lexington, and Patrick Henry.
Because oiFrance-iivaded, desecrated France, a mOlion of whose
hefoicXlhave^ed to save the land of Laf avette Glorious golden
Frlnce the pJeserve-r of the arts the land o^ noble spirit-the first
land to foUow our lead into repubhcan liberty.
Because of England-from whom came the laws, traditions, stand-
ard of life and Cerent love of liberty, which we caH Anglo-Saxon
c^Si^atSn We defeated her once upon the land and once upon the



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sea But Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and Canada are free be-,
cause of what we did. And they are with us in the fight for the free-
dom of the seas.
