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Panama Canal, with this difference — that it will be realized in a 

 much shorter time. The question is no longer whether or not the 

 regular aerial crossings of the North Atlantic will be made, but 

 whether France will have in it the place which she deserves. Some 

 believe the plan to be too bold — but audacity, when it is deliberate, 

 is the mother of all progress; it alone is capable of putting in the 

 vanguard of civilization the countries, young or old, whose energies 

 have not yet been sapped by the seductions of the policy of least 

 effort. 



The great sacrifices of her pilots have earned for her first place 

 in the great competition which is coming ; let France understand and 

 let her not be outdistanced ! 



