Arizona republican., 1917-04-13
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 LONDON, April 12.-As the first British premier minister to salute the American nation as comrades in arms. David Lloyd George, Englands great democratic leader, speaking before a notable assembly brought together by the American Luncheon club today, aroused intense enthusiasm by his scathing denunciation of Prussia and his warm welcome of America as an ally in the war.
 The advent of the United States into the war, he said, gives the final stamp to the character of the conflict as struggle against military autocracy throughout the world.
 It was stirring day for. the taking up of arms by America was celebrated by two notable asserblages. one under the auspices of the American luncheon club and the other at dinrer pv the Pilgrims club in honor of the Ameri- can ambassador, Walter Hines Page. Viscount Bryce, the former ambassa- dor at Washington. presided at the din ner to Mir. Page and delivered. an eIo- quent oratiCn.
 Premier floyd George, always force ful and epigrammatic, was never in finer im and his ringing words struck a responsive chord. There were toasts to the president of the United States and to the king of England and won derful display of rejoicing over the sealing of the bond of friendship be- tw eep the United States and England and France and the other allies
 The United States of America never have engaged in a war except for liberty" declared the premier That it has made up it's mind fin ally makes it abundan,ly clear to the world that this is great fight for human liberty"
 Again. he said. Prussia is not a democracy. the kaiser promises that t will be 2 democracy after the war. I think he is right"
 MT. Lloyd George paid warm tri- bute to France.
 A remarkable feature of the pre- ynier's speech was his warning to the United States to aVoiG the blunders committed by the british The grim hunor of the British was well illus trate6 by MT. Lloyd George when, in VCicing this warning. he said:
 "Wc are a slow people-slow and blundering, but we get there. We have made, as we generally do, every hlunder. May a respectfully suggest that it is worth a good deal to study our b'unders, so as tn hAgin where we are now, not where we were three years ago.
 The arrangements already under way for the building of ships by the tnited States appealed strongly to the premier who declared that the road to victory was to be found in the one word ships" He expressed he belief that the ,;ermans and their military advisors were beginning to realize that tkis was another of their misca!culations. which would lead them to disaster. Of Americas part in the war the premier said
 'It was a bad day for the military autocracy in Prussia when it chal- lengec the greater per cent of the west. We know America and we also know new she has said it she will do it. She will wage strong and suc- eessful war and there is something mere important she will ensure a beneficent peace"
 s!.. Lloyd George said in part:
 T am in the position, in the happy position, of being, 1 think, the first prime minister of the crown whC could salute the American nation as comrades in arms. 1 am glad not only because of the Stuperdous ~o- sources which this nation will bring 10 the succor of the allies, but 1 re 1oice as a democrat that the advent ter of the conflict as a struggle of the United States into the w;.-
 
 against military autocracy throughout the world. That was the note that rang through the great deliverance of President Wilson
 The United States of America never have engaged in a war except of Hb- erty. This is the greatest struggle for liberty that they ever have embarked upon. l am not at all surprised, when one recollects the wars of the past, that America took it's time to make up its mlnd about the character of this strug- gle in Europe. Most of the great wars in the past were waged for dynastic aggrandizement and for conquest if IS no wonder that when this great war started there were some elements of suspicion still lurking in the minds of the people of the United States of America, that there were many who
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