Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-09

Washington, May S.-Foreign Secre- tary Balfour declared in an epochaI address in the senate chamber today that the war conference here had ce- mented an alliance of three great democracies destined to crush the greatest world menace of all time and to save civilization and liberty Though severe trials still must be faced. he said, free peoples now have been aroused and fired with determination insuring the ultimate triumph of free institutions.
 This war is to be settled by hard lighting" said the British statesman, and when it comes to hard fighting neither America nor Britain nor France need fear measuring them selves at any moment against those who have risen up against all that we hold dear for the future.
 Requires Efforts of Everybody.
 Tt requires every man and woman on this side of the Atlantic as on the other side to throw their efforts into the scale of right but that effort un- occasionally will be made. I speak with confidence about the issue of this struggle-a confidence which is de- doubled since you have thrown in your lot"
 Submarine Situation Grave.
 The submarine campaign presents a grave situation just now. Mir. Balfour said, but more than one difficulty of like magnitude has been overcome'' % The war could not be won. he predict cd, by killing helpless women and children or by unwarranted attacks upon neutrals.
 Failure to comprehend that these two great English-speaking peoples would and could fight for an ideal, he chara cterized as the greatest blunder which would cost Germany the war.
 "Because we were military" he continued they jumped rashly to the conclusion, firstly, that we were afraid to fight, and secondly, that if we fought, we should be negligible quail ties I think they are beginning, possibly, to find out their mistake"
 Appreciated Warm Reception.
 The foreign secretary expressed ap- preciation for the warm reception giv- en the war missions by the American government and people. declaring this attitude had raised the whole level Of the war conferences from purely l business nature to a significance that | would live in history as epochal
 In his visit to the senate chamber, i Mir. Balfour was accompanied by Lieu tenant General Bridges and Admiral de Chair of the British mission. and they 1 were given reception rivalling in en- thusiasm that accorded them Satur- i day in the house. Vice President | Marshall presented the foreign secre- ] tary as the foremost champion of the ] Ma gna Charta." an instrument of i liberty without which neither Ameri- ]
  3 hope of being"
 Applause From Floor and Galleries.
 Applause both from the senate | floor and from the galleries greeted | the pointed declarations punctuating | Mir. Balfour's speech and at the end | the senators rose to their feet and | -heered.
 MT Balfour said in part:
 You MT. President have in grace | ful and pregnant sentences brought to ! our recollection the common origin of | those liberties which, whether in | France in Britain or in the United i States Of America. we all rejoice in and are all determined to defend.
 ''You have also in warm words of | welcome spoken kindly of the mission | of which I have the honor TO be the | head and to which you are now paving l the rare, the very rare honor of wei | coming within your walls.
 "On their behalf not less than on l my own I most sincerely thank YOU for your welcome. l. know well that | it is not a welcome to individuals. The | kindness individually which each one | of us as individuals has received since | we came to this great city will never be forgotten by any of us It has bSen ! kindness abundant overhowing, gen erous b1s ladies and gentlemen. be- hind that individual kindness behind that kindness paid hy individuals to the expression of a hos pitable and generous feeling to guests within your walls. there is after al something much deeper. sometime much more important. something which Is after all the animatine spirit which brings this great assembly here today.
 Business the Object cf Mission.
 "The original object of our mission, If I may so express it, was a purely | business one or a mainly business one. We came here to discuss mat ters of the deepest moment for the conduct of that great war in which both our nations are involved"
 England Was Unprepared.
 Touching directly on the war. he said: ''We English speaking peoples have never organized ourselves for mil itary purposes; we have never been states; and when the war broke out undoubtedly the Germans looked around the world, estimated the value from their point of view of the nations with whom they might be and, profoundly contemp- tuous of our views of civilization they decided that neither British nor Amer lcan counted in the struggle by which they hoped to obtain the domination of the world. They found us unprepar- ed and because we were unprepared