that his arrival was far more than a fine deed well accomplished, and there glowed within me the prescience of a splendor yet to come. Lo! it did come and has gone on spreading its beneficence upon two sister nations which a now conquered ocean joins.
For I feel in every fibre of my being that Lindbergh’s landing here marks one of the supreme moments in the history of America and France, and the faith we have had in the decidding power of spiritual things is strengthened by every circumstance of his journey, by all his acts after landing, and by the electrical effect which ran like some religious emotion through a whole vast population. The “Spirit of St. Louis” was to the French people another sign come out of the sky—a sign which bore the promise that all would be well between them and us.
France took Charles Lindbergh to her heart because of what he was and because of what she knew he represented. His little ship became the meeting place of the greatest conference that
