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The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II

CHAPTER XXII
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He has made the very best of the chance and he has completely won the confidence and admiration of this side of the world.
Pershing made an admirable impression here, and in France he has simply set them wild with joy.

His coming and his little army have been worth what a real army will be worth later.

It is well he came to keep the French in line.
The army of doctors and nurses have had a similar effect.
Even the New England saw-mill units have caused a furor of enthusiasm.

They came with absolute Yankee completeness of organization--with duplicate parts of all their machinery, tents, cooks, pots, and pans, and everything ship-shape.

The only question they asked was: "Say, where the hell are them trees you want sawed up ?" That's the way to do a job! Yankee stock is made high here by such things as that.
We're getting a crowd of Yankee lecturers on the United States to go up and down this Kingdom.


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