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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nis faithrul to our common memories. It is incapable of\ningratitude and forgetfulness.\nHow could it then forget the great and decisive part\nwhich - on two different occasions, with all the impulsive-\nness of an outraged conscience and with an abundance of\nmeans never before equaled - you have taken in its libera-\ntion and in the victory of right over wrong.\nHow could it forget this magnificent spectacle or\nhuman solidarity formidable armies crossing the ocean\nwhich the enemy believed to be impassable, and smashing\nthe heavy valls which a madman, considering them impreg-\nnable, had erected around this prison in which all France\nwas held captive.\nAND\nRECORDS\nSERVICE'\nHow could we forget the magnificent courage of your\nsoldiers, those heroio American Expeditionary Porces\namong which tre recall with emotion that you yourself,\nCaptain, Truman, fought valiantly and gloriously in 1917\non our French soil; how could we forget that they were\ninspired in the first war by an admirable commander, Gen-\neral Pershing, and by the noble President Wilson, and in\nthe last war, under the forceful guidance of your illus-\ntrious President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by that may-\nveloue general named Eisenhower, whom we are happy to see\nagain at the head of the collective security of the world.\nAnd, if there were any who could forget, it would\nsuffice for them to do as I have very often done, to make\nthe sacred pilgrimage to the High Places of combat and\nbow and meditate before the countless graves there our\nsons, yours and ours, rest side by side and together re-\nmind us of the sublime ideal for which they suffered,\nfought"
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