Goodbye Girlie! On to France. An American soldier gives a woman a boost so she can kiss a departing soldier. A postcard from the Chicago Daily News, G. J. Kavanaugh War Postal Card Department.
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"— The 4th. The American workers' delegates have been welcomed by the Parliamentary Socialist group. They are all opposed to the resumption of international negotiations. One of their Press agents declares: 'A short conflict would be followed by a short peace.' That phrase 'short conflict' is delightful!The truth is that, in the eyes of this journalist, the war began at the moment when America descended into the bloody arena."
Entry from the diary of Michel Corday, a senior civil servant in the French government writing in Paris on August 4, 1918. The French had just begun their fifth year of the war. The Americans, despite having declared war in April 1917, had only entered the battle in any numbers in May, 1918.
The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, page 364, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934
1918-08-04, 1918, August, Goodbye Girlie
