A VIEW OF JAFFA, THE ANCIENT PORT OF PALESTINE WHICH WAS USED AS A BASE OF OPERATIONS IN THE BRITISH ADVANCE UPON JERUSALEM In the time of Solomon, Jaffa was the port of Jerusalem, and it was here that the cedar from Lebanon was landed for the construction of the Temple. In the middle ages the seaport figured in many of the crusades. Napoleon captured it in 1799, and now it has helped the Twentieth Century Crusaders of Britain to deliver the Holy Land from the Hun and the Turk (see also pages 325-344). I should like again to express my admiration of the magnificent work which you of the United States are doing. If we in Canada can but keep pace with you, we shall be satisfied. We shall at least try. My last word is a vision which I and other Canadians note with joy is already in the first stages of realization. I see the United States and the British Em pire, the two great branches of the English-speaking world, going down through the centuries arm in arm, coöperating as brothers, each helping the other, each strengthening the other, and unitedly blessing the world and making it safe for democracy. The Germans have succeeded in unifying the Anglo-Saxon world. Photograph by an Australian Aviator, from C. W. Whitehair A VIEW OF THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM FROM THE SKY The conspicuous area in the middle of this airplane photograph is the "Place of the Temple," in the center of which is the glittering Mosque of Omar, one of the richest temples in the world. Beyond is the elevation known as the Mount of Olives, crowned by the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria Hospice, in which the German Government installed a powerful wireless outfit. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre can be distinguished near the center of the city. The Garden of Gethsemane lies between the Mosque of Omar and the Mount of Olives (see also pages 325-344). I THE HEALER OF HUMANITY'S WOUNDS N PEACE as in war, there is no organization more necessary for the alleviation of suffering than the American Red Cross, some of whose distinctive activities are most effectively portrayed in the exclusive photographs on pages 309-324. Now and ever the hearts of countless millions of the soldiers of every land who have survived the awful conflict of the War for Eternal Peace glow with gratitude when the Red Cross is brought to mind; their children and their children's children will remember it with the exact antithesis of the feeling inspired by thoughts of war. Great as the Red Cross was in war, yet greater is it in peace, and its usefulness is now supreme in the months and years of restitution, rehabilitation, and recon struction in the countries of our staunch friends, who so bravely bore the brunt of the brutal thrust which threatened the safety of the world and who held at bay the militaristic machine of the last of the Huns until the armies of democracy could gird up their loins and destroy it. The American Red Cross needs now the support of every American more than ever before. To help in this work of relieving civilian suffering in devastated France and Belgium is the paramount privilege of every man, woman, and child in the United States. The widows, aged parents, and fatherless children of the heroes who died to stem the tide of autocratic advance require your assistance, through the Red Cross, in regaining their equilibrium to face the problems of the future. "I like the American soldiers. They have come to protect my country. And I like especially my god-fathers," says Andre Claudel, a ten-year-old orphan who has been adopted by a number of army field clerks in France. Andre's mother died a year ago and his father was killed in the Argonne. He is a serious-minded little French boy and one of the best students in the refugee colony at Caen. Many French orphans have been adopted by American troops, and the American Red Cross administers the funds for their maintenance. Remember the home paper you sent him? Well, here it is! A fellow must do something to while away the hours when he is convalescingeven in an American Red Cross hospital in London. And in spite of wounds received in action, these true-to-type Americans must make paper caps and "play soldier," for "men are only boys grown tall, and hearts don't change much, after all.' " THE RATIFICATION OF A FRANCO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE In the garden of the American Red Cross recreation hut at Orleans a Yankee chaplain and a group of doughboys are entertaining a French visitor and in turn being entertained by him. It was the aged governor of one of the war-torn French provinces who said that "though France has long known of America's greatness, strength, and enterprise, it has remained for the American Red Cross in the war to reveal America's heart." |