H.G. Wells - Manuscript Signed - On Warren G. Harding & Tomb of Unknown Soldier

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H.G. Wells - Manuscript Signed - On Warren G. Harding & Tomb of Unknown Soldier:
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Flags, waved and fluttered, and an irresistible expression of America’s private life and buoyant well-being, mingled in the proceedings. For most of the gathering, that coffin under the great Flag held nothing they had ever touched personally; it was not America’s lost treasure of youth but rather a warning of the fate that may yet overtake the youth of America if war is not to end. At Arlington, throughout the length and breadth of America, when, for two minutes at midday, all work and movement stopped and America stood still, an innumerable host of fathers and mothers, and wives and friends could whisper thanks to God in their hearts that their sons and their beloved remained alive. And I suppose it is largely because America is still so much less war stricken than any of the other belligerents of the Great War, that so much more powerful a sense of will was apparent in all these proceedings. The burial of the Unknown Soldier in America was not a thing in itself as it was in London, in Paris or Rome, it was a solemn prelude to action, the action of the great Conference which is to seek peace and enduring peace for all mankind.”

Flag HELD NOTHING THEY HAD EVER TOUCHED PERSONALLY; IT WAS NOT AMERICA’S LOST TREASURE OF YOUTH BUT RATHER A WARNING OF THE FATE THAT MAY YET OVERTAKE THE YOUTH OF AMERICA IF WAS IS NOT TO END.”