The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-29
in EUROPE
DINNER UNDER AUSPICES OF LON
DON's AMERICAN SOCIETY.
Speech by Charge D'Affaires White
to Mckinley by Justice
WaItOn-Other O-bservnnces.

LONDON. Nov. 2S.-Three hundred
guests assembled this evening for the
Thanksgiving dinner given under the aus
pices of the American Society in London.
John Morgan Richards was in the chair.
Paul Cambon. the French ambassador to
Great Britain, proposed the health of Pres
ident Roosevelt Henry White, the United
States charge d'affaires, responded to the
toast THE Charge d'Affaires," proposed by
Justice Walton. NJ. Cambon paid a feel
ing tribute TO the late President Mckinley,
whose death, he said, had shocked France
and knit the sister republics in closer bonds
OF sympathy and sorrow. While President
Roosevelt was an unknown quantity in the
world, said NJ. Cambon, his was a cultured,
energetic and charming personality. and
his elevation to the Presidency had been
received in France with the happiest an
ticipations of carrying on those cordial re-
latiOns which had existed between the two
countries for over a century past.
Justice Walton paid high tribute to Mr..
Whites efforts to promote good feeling
between Great Britain and the United
States. Mr.. White, replying, said he had
long been acquainted with the cordial feel
ing Great Britain entertained for the
United States and he regretted that Joseph
II. Choate, American ambassador to Great
Britain, who had done so much to cultivate
these relations, was not present at this
Thanksgiving. day dinner. Mr.. White said
it was the time for family talks and that
he hoped to be forgiven if he referred to
that American prosperity which made the
secretary of the United States treasury the
envy of every other treasury secretary in
the world. If Americas friendship for
Great Britain was pronounced, this did not
mean, went on Mr.. White, that Americans
held any less cordial feelings toward
France or any other nation of the world.
Mr.. White then spoke highly of President
Roosevelt, whose ability, courage and
steadfastness of purpose could not, he said.
fail TO produce a great effect for the well
fare of all the nations of the universe.
Conan Doyle, the novelist, produced per-
haps the greatest effect of the evening by
declaring the pendulum of the British
world had now shifted to somewhere be-
tween New York and Chicago. There is
no use in Disgusting this important fact. ="
continued Mr.. Doyle. yet, if the English
speaking races should be compelled TO meet
"A common foe, the world would soon see
how quickly these same English speaking
people would close up their ranks and
march shoulder To shoulder for the ad-
vancement of civilization"
When Anthony Hope, the novelist. spoke,
he said the only thing which remained to
be done TO bind the nations more closely
together was for some one TO find a COM
mon denomination for English and Ameri-
can jokes.
American residents of Berlin TO the num-
Der of 800 informally celebrated Thanks
giving day with a supper and dance at
the KaiserhOf this evening. Owing to the
mourning for the late President Mckinley
members of the United States embassy
were not present at the gathering. The
cornerstone of the new American church in
Berlin was laid to-day by United States am
bassador Andrew ID. White. In his speech
on the occasion Mr.. White emphasized the
broad and liberal character of the under
taking. which ignored all denominations
bounds.
United States Minister Robert McCor-
mick and Mrs. Mccormick ~signaliZed their
entry into the official life of the Austrian
capital by holding a Thanksgiving-day re-
ception at Vienna in their new residence,
which was formerly the property of Prince
CN1onG