Tribute to the memory of President Wilson and regret for the failure of his high principles embodied in the Fourteen Points, which was to lead to a peace without victors and vanquished, was paid by Samuel Untermyer at the Armistice Day celebration held at Temple Rodeph Sholom, at Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street. Mr. Untermyer at the same time expressed his disappointment at the subsequent developments following the signing of the Armistice and the Peace Treaty of Versailles. Mr. Untermyer declared that Armistice Day should be “a day of sackcloth and ashes, rather than one of joy.
“If American wants a real Armistice Day” he said, “that shall be a source of pride rather than shame and mortification, we should at least make an effort to correct or modify those wrongs for which we are at least partly responsible. As the first step in that direction let us ask the forthcoming disarmament conference to include in its program the discussion of treaty revision. It would be a difficult task, but if it can be only partly accomplished it will open the way for us to become a part of the League of Nations, to preserve the peace which we need not be ashamed to defend.”
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