PERSHING FIGHTS ON

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 134, 9 June 1939, Page 10

PERSHING FIGHTS ON

Those who were spaced from death in the ordeal of 1914^13 have cause to remember. Years; afterwards, grateful soldiers revigit the graves in France or Gallipoli "where, but for the higher mercy, tlney might themselves be resting. !<Grateful for victory achieved not at the sacrifice of their own lives, tiiaese soldiers do not forget to honour the memory of soldiers who paid, the price; thus is the Torch of Remembrance kept alight. General Pershing's twentyfirst annual voyafgje to war graves in France is now (being made a!; the hazard of his own life. Doctors have told him that Inn other trip from America to Frajirce will be bis last, but he is not a.C'raid, if need be, to make the sj-icrifice that oilier American soldfiers made more than twenty years a/go. If it is asked why General PersHiaig should risk a life not now menaiced by the missiles of war, possibly his answer will be that he made a promise to his men (to annually revisit the graves of their Amer.i'cs?m dead) ; that the sacrifice of his own life in age cannot be greater 'than the sacrifice of other soldier liyes. in youth; and that the memory iqff patriots who have gone before is to patriots who are yet 'to be. For the 1914-18 illusion that a war was being fought to end wax has vanished. It is now clearer ttbkn ever that no man will walk in ♦democratic freedom upon the earth uuilless other men are prepared -to resist,)servitude to the death.