JFK+50: Volume 7, No. 2317
FRENCH PM SAYS U.S. FLAG FLYING ON FRONT WILL BRING VICTORY
Paris, France (JFK+50) One hundred years ago today, May 22, 1917, Premier Alexandre Ribot*, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies**, said...
"Once the American flag is flying on the French front Germany will be forced to ask for peace."
The Premier added...
"France...wishes a durable peace. If the German people comprehended this it would make peace easier to attain."
*Alexandre Felix-Joseph Ribot (1842-1923) was born in Saint-Omer, Pas-de=Calais. He was laureat of the faculty of law at the University of Paris. AFJR served as prime minister of France 1892-93, 1895, 1914 & 1917.
**Chamber of Deputies (1875-1940) during the Third Republic was the legislative assembly of the French Parliament elected by universal suffrage.
SOURCE
"American Flag On Front Means Victory-Ribot, French Premier Declares Germans Then Will Be Forced to Ask Peace", The Chicago Daily Tribune, May 23, 1917.
Alexandre Ribot
Prime Minister of France
FRENCH PM SAYS U.S. FLAG FLYING ON FRONT WILL BRING VICTORY
Paris, France (JFK+50) One hundred years ago today, May 22, 1917, Premier Alexandre Ribot*, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies**, said...
"Once the American flag is flying on the French front Germany will be forced to ask for peace."
The Premier added...
"France...wishes a durable peace. If the German people comprehended this it would make peace easier to attain."
*Alexandre Felix-Joseph Ribot (1842-1923) was born in Saint-Omer, Pas-de=Calais. He was laureat of the faculty of law at the University of Paris. AFJR served as prime minister of France 1892-93, 1895, 1914 & 1917.
**Chamber of Deputies (1875-1940) during the Third Republic was the legislative assembly of the French Parliament elected by universal suffrage.
SOURCE
"American Flag On Front Means Victory-Ribot, French Premier Declares Germans Then Will Be Forced to Ask Peace", The Chicago Daily Tribune, May 23, 1917.
Alexandre Ribot
Prime Minister of France
