Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-07

England's New Ambassador to the United States.
the cabinet parlamentarians and diplo-
mats, including Sir Mortimer Durand, the
recent British ambassador at Washing ton,
the Japanese ambassador and many others,
made up an assemblage of exceptional bril-
liancy.
The Japanese ambassador, replying to the
toast The Guests. made significant ref
| erence to japanese American relations. Il
am glad he said. Ito be present at this
demonstration to the new ambassador to
| the United States, with which country both
Japan and Great Britain have maintained
the most cordial relations"
Reid's Health to Bryce.
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, in proposing
the health of Mr.. Bryce, referred to the
presence of the primate of all England CDR
Davidson, archbishop of Canterbury and
of conspicuous representatives of the gov
eminent. parliament, the great UNIVERSE
ties English literature, Journalism and
business-all testfying to the pride with
which his countrymen saw Mr.. Bryce set
forth on his new duties-and added:
1.-The good will of the hour will not Gre
ate any illusions as to the nature of those
duties. He knows periectly-none better
that he is sent first to look scrupulously
after the interests of his own country. We
should not give him half so hearty a well
come ourselves if We did not expect that
of him. But next he knows just as well
that those interests in this country, as in
ours. are best promoted by keeping the
peace.
'At the head of the two governments
stand two statesmen with unsurpassed rec
ords as peacemakers-his majesty King Ed
ward VII and Theodore Roosevelt. 1t is
not too much to say that each has the con-
fdence not only of his own people, but of
the world, alike in his desire for peace and
his knowing how to secure 1t.
Root and Grey.
G,
very much the same kind of man as your
Sir Edward Grey, with the same elevated
| views, the same calm lucidity of thought
and that habitual fairness Of temper and
| habit in looking a subject over on all its
| sides before reaching a conclusion about it
which | may be permitted to call by the
large name of Anglo-Saxon. Under such
| chiefs, discussions proceed with the idea
| of discovering justice, and conclusions are
| facilitated by absolute candor. There has
| never been a time when the two peoples
| were glad TO be friends, when they
| looked with such Impotence on the idea Of
permitting anything TO prevent it. Incl
dents which a few years ago would have
set both countries in a blaze are now ha-
| bitually brushed away or laughed out of
sight.
1.-The selection of Mr. Bryce has been ac-
cepted a compliment from the mother
country to her giant offspring in the west
i can assure him a welcome cordial as
| tive ad l wish him in his new field, as all
confidently anticipate another distinguish
ed and successful career"
Many prominent members of the Ameri-
can colony were present.
A Better World.
Mr.. Bryce, responding to Mr.. Reid said
he had not words to acknowledge the great
kindness shown him. He sometimes Won
dered. he said, whether, in going to the
western hemisphere. he was not going to
another and better world. He expressed
himself deeply sensible to the warm well
come and thanked the American ambas-
| sador for the good auguries with which he
cheered him on In undertaking a new and
responsible task.
| Mr.. Bryce then rapidly reviewed the re-
! lations of Great Britain and the United
| States for the past century and referred
to the steady growth of better feeling be-
| tween the two countries since the time of
his first visit to America, in 1870
He said he was encouraged by the thought
| that the message he had 10 deliver was
| plain and simple one. 1t was a message
| he said. of true sympathy in veal and woe:
| a message of friendship between Great
| Britain and America that both countries
| trusted would stand unbroken through all
| the ages.
War Secretary Haldane, Lord Roberts
and others having spoken, a cable message
| from Joseph III. Choate, for the Pilgrims Of
! the United States, was read and the pro-