The Sentinel=record., 1917-04-22

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 in charitable and reief work done ia Belgium and in German prison camps.
 his qualification that Finland and the United States now were allied for 6 common purpose and his conviction
 that this country in it's war efforts
 would astoound the world particular. ly Germany.
 The object of the commission. Mir.
 Balfour said, was "to make coopera- ton easy and effective between those
 who are striving with all their power to bring about a lasting peace by inc only means that can secure it, name ly, successful war"
 Your president, in a most apparent and vivid phnse." Mir Balfour added.
 has proclaimed that the world must ce made safe for democracy; that self governing communities are not to be treated as negligible simply because they are small. That the ruthless domi- nation of one interruptions power i'm. perils the future of civilization and the liberties of mankind are truths of DO. litical ethics which the bitter experi- ence of war is burning Into the souls of all freedom loving peoples"
 Engands leading statesmen, having safely eyaded the German submarines and mines which sent Lord Kitchener to his death, were received with the highest honors as guests of the Amer lean people when they arrived at place in America which cannot be named. A delegation Of state, war and navy department officials well comed the commission in the name of the government and set out with them to the capital for which is ad- mittedly the most vital coonference in American history.
 The commission was received with the utmo't simplicity and cordiali;y and with every recognition of the fact 'ha. Great Britain had given of her very best. It Is said, indeed that no foreign minister has left England for the length Of time that MT. Balfour will be away since the congress Of Vienna a century ago.
 The formal welcome was extended by Third Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, through the presen- taton to MT. Balfour of a letter of greeting from Secretary Lansing, which the British statesman acknowl. edged with equal simplicity, while British and American officials mingled.
 A special train which had been wait ing five days at once got under way for the capital, guarded as almost no other train has ever been guarded in this country. Protection had been af- torded at all bridges and tunnels and every mile of the track has been gone cover within the previous "A hours to guard against a possible fanatic. No ietail of any sort whatsoever which could betray the place of arrival or route of travel was allowed to escape.
 Almost immediately when the train started the large party broke up into groups oof army, navy and state de partment officials to begin at once the informal conversations which are ex. pocted to sketch out Americas part in the world war against German autoc- rdcy Mir Baifour and Secretary Long Lieutenant General T. Bridges. who drew the first blood for England in August, 1914, and Major General Leon. ard Wood; and Rear Admiral Sir Dud. ley De Chair and Rear Admiral F F Fletcher were soon in deep conserca- ton over the various phases of Amer. can participation.
 On all sides it was reiterated that the British had come in a spirit of service and apprehension and that it was their hope that lessons they had learned in the war at such cost might be of service to this country in avoid ing similar mistakes. Similarly, as one ottielal expressed it, the commission was moved by exactly the same feel. ings which raised the Stars and Stripes to the flag tower of the par Lament building in London for the first time a foreign flag has ever flown there in history
 Secretary Balfour, a tall, slim, white haired man of 59 years, who has he'd the highest posts in the empire since he first entered parliament forty-three years ago, was today the completion Of one of his life hopes expressed un- der vastly different circumstances on January ,, 1886, when he was largely instrumental in avertng war between England and America over the Vene- Zuela dispute.
 Tt cannot but be-" he said. that those whoose national roots go down into the same past as ours, who share our language. our literature. our laws, .our religion, everything that makes a nation great, t cannot but be that a time will come when they wiii feel that they and we have a common duty CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.