Lafayette symbolized two great principles of government. First, the
right of a people to govern themselves, as opposed to government of
the many by a self-appointed few-in other words, democracy as
opposed to autocracy. Second, a union of the democracies to insure
mutual protection and peace...Before landing in America in 1777 he
wrote to his wife: "I but offer my services to that interesting
republic from motives of the purest kind, unmixed with ambition or
private views: her happiness and my glory are my only incentives to
the task..".-from The Spirit of LafayetteAs France floundered in
the later years of the Great War, the pressure on the United States
to join the European struggle against tyranny was growing. In 1918,
American lawyer James Mott Hallowell published this plea to his
countrymen to come to the aid of France, which had done the same
for America at her hour of greatest need during the Revolution
against Britain. By detailing Lafayette's contribution to the
then-new nation's battle for freedom, Hallowell argues that the
debt the country incurred at its birth from France was now due, and
his impassioned argument was so effective it inspired a 1919
film... and helped contribute to the United States' entry into
World War I.OF INTEREST TO: readers of World War I issue, students
of French-American diplomacyAUTHOR BIO: JAMES MOTT HALLOWELL (b.
1865) served as assistant attorney general of the state of
Massachusetts. He also wrote Taxation of Domestic Manufacturing
Corporations in Massachusetts (1908).
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