AMBASSADOR HERRICK SAYS U.S. & FRANCE STILL ALLIES
Paris, France (JFK+50) On September 22, 1921, U.S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick* delivered to France "a promise that amounted almost to an unwritten alliance between the two countries."
The Ambassador spoke at the Inter-Allied Club in the Place de la Opera** here in Paris. He said that General John J. Pershing's mandate...was to tell France that 'we still remember, and if that be not enough, we can still act.'
*Myron Timothy Herrick (1854-1929) was born in Lorain County, Ohio & studied at Oberlin College & Ohio Wesleyan University. MTH was Governor of Ohio, 1904-1906 and Ambassador to France, 1912-1914 & 1921-1929.
**Place de la Opera is part of the Haussmannian redesign of Paris under Napoleon III.
SOURCE
"U.S. Still an Ally, Herrick Tells France," by Wilbur Forrest, The New York Tribune, September 23, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
