PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION
ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 6, No. 18. SERIAL No. 166
COPYRIGHT, 1918. BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, INC.
GUYNEMER, THE ACE OF ACES
GUYNEMER, THE WINGÈD SWORD OF FRANCE
A Tribute, by Premier Georges Clemenceau
Translated from the French
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“How difficult it is to find a little black point through a rift in the clouds, which, found again soon afterwards in the field of blue, is about to wrap itself in a mist of white smoke, and seems to be celebrating in its own honor, but is only Death’s messenger. That is Guynemer, far up there, or some other of ‘The Storks’ under attack by German shrapnel. This war, beyond the range of vision, in the tragic infinity of space, watched by all the world!
“He who was able to place himself in the first rank of that band of messengers from the earth to the heights, in response to the wingèd beings that the heavens sent us long ago, fully merits to live among us as a symbol of one of the greatest efforts of the human will.