The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-15
ENGLISH PRAISE FOR CHOATE.
CALLED GREAT AMBASSADOR AT
FAREWELL DINNER.
Apostle OF the Modern idea Of Diplomacy
bench and Bar or England Honor
the Retiring American EnyOy-Hands
Across the Sea Sentiment Expressed.

Special Coble Despatch 10 THE sun.
LONDON, April IA have been TO many
gratifying functions but never to one
which equalled this.
In these words Ambassador Choate sum-
med up to a reporter the impression made
upon him by the farewell entertainment
given him by the bench and bar Of England
tonight. The dinner was served in the
great hall Of Lincolns Inn.
The Lord Chancellor, the Earl Of Halls
bury, presided. There were 800 guests
present. including Baron Alverstone, the
Lord Chief Justice; twenty-five Judges Of
the High Court of Justice. number Of
peers, other titled Personages, the leading
barristers and several Members Of Parlia-
ment.
Lord Halsbury In toasting the guest at
tributed to him the best conception Of the
Office Of an Ambassador He said that Mr..
Choate had been the apostle OF the modern
idea Of diplomacy, an idea not based on
force and duplicity, but on publicity and
Justice, perfectly consistent with a deter
mination to maintain his nations rights
He had used his great influence, backed
by the temper and honor Of a gentleman,
TO prevent any tendency toward jealousy
or hostility, and to promote good feeling
between the nations. He was now re-
turning, enjoying the honor and respect
of his own countrymen and the love and
affection Of those he left behind.
The company honored the toast standing
and gave three cheers for Mr.. Choate.
In replying, Mr.. Choate said he accepted
the tribute on behalf OF the American
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Office he was abandoning. His diplomatic
work in England had been made easy by
the spirit in which he had been received.
The two great representatives Of England
with whom he had had to deal, Lord Sails
bury and Lord Lansdowne, had made his
path easy, not only because they practised
modern diplomacy, saying what they
meant and meaning what they said, with
never a card up any sleeve. but because
they always met him more than half way in
all matters tending to Cancellation, harmony
and union between the United Kingdom
and the United States.
This was easy for both them and him,
because the chiefs on both sides Of the
Atlantic, Queen Victoria and King Edward
and Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt,
had been every moment determined that
the two countries should be friends. Be-
hind them was mighty force giving addi-
tional siren 9Th, namely, the people. Both
were determined that nothing
should mar their friendship.
Referring 70 the legal side Of the enter
tainment and the recent conferring Of a
benchership upon him, Mr.. Choate drew
and humorous parallels be-
tween the American and English bars.
He concluded by saying that love for his
professional brethren' in Great Britain
would tempt him TO return as often as he
could.
LONDON, April 1.-THE newspapers this
morning print editorials warmly commend
atory Of Ambassador Choate. we are all
loath TO part With him." says the Times,
which recalls that only twice before was
a banquet Of a similar kind given, while
a benchership has never before been con-
ferred on a man not an Englishman since
the middle Of the seventeenth century.
The Morning Post remarks that what
Lord Halsbury truly said about Mr.. Choate's
Enthusiastically was equally true Of the
manner the Office was filed by Lowell,
Phelps, Lincoln, Bayard and Hay.