PRESIDENT HARDING SAYS "A NEW HOPE LOOMS TODAY"
Plymouth, Massachusetts (JFK+50) On August 1, 1921, speaking to a large audience near the landing spot of the Pilgrims, President Warren G. Harding "expressed a firm faith that world freedom may be found through diminished armament and a minimizing of war's causes."
The President's address was attended by Vice-President Calvin Coolidge, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Major General Clarence R. Edwards, Secretary of War Weeks and Governor Cox of Massachusetts.
The President said...
"A new hope looms today. We are slowly but very surely recovering from the wastes and sorrows of a cataclysmic war. Solvent financially, sound economically...unexcelled in industry, resolute in determination and unwavering faith, these United States will carry on."
SOURCE
"Harding Sees Freedom for World After Cut in Arms," by Boyden R. Sparkes, The New York Tribune, August 2, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
