Plans also are under consideration for allowing beneficiaries of men who
have died or been killed in the service to choose between taking monthly
payments over a period of twenty years or to commute these payments in a
lump sum.
CHAPTER LV
AMERICA'S POSITION IN WAR AND PEACE
By common consent of the Entente Allies, President Wilson was made the
spokesman for the democracy of the world. As Lloyd George, Premier
Clemenceau of France, Premier Orlando of Italy, and other Europeans
recognized, his utterances most clearly and cogently expressed the
principles for which civilization was battling against the Hun. More
than that, these statesmen and the peoples they represented recognized
that back of President Wilson were the high ideals of an America pledged
to the redemption of a war-weary world.
The war produced a sterility in literature. Out of the great mass that
was written, however, two productions stood out in their nobility of
thought and in their classic directness of expression. These were the
address before Congress by President Wilson on the night of April 2,
1917, when, recognizing fully the dread responsibility of his action, he
pronounced the words which led America into the World War, and the
speech made by him on Monday, November 11, 1918, when addressing
Congress he announced the end of the war.
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