Arizona republican., 1918-12-28
KING AND WILSON. PLEDGE NATIONS. T0 CAUSE 0F MAN
Two Great Nations Bound
 By Common Ties Have
 Common Aid-To Secure Peace And Freedom

LONDON, Dec. 27.-In his speech at the state banquet to President Wilson at Buckingham Palace tonight, King George said:
 This is an historic moment and your visit marks an historic epoch. Nearly 150 years have passed since your republic began its independent life and now, for the first time, a president of the United States is our guest in England.
 We welcome you to the country whence came your ancestors and where stands the homes of those from whom spring Washington and Lincoln. We welcome you for yourself, as one whose insight, calmness and dignity in the discharge of his high duties we have watched with admiration. We see in you the happy union of the gifts of a scholar with those of a statesman. You came from studious, academic quiet into the full stream of an arduous public life and your deliverances have combined breadth of view and grasp of world problems with the mastery of a lofty diction recalling that of your great orators of the past and of our own.
 You come as the official head and spokesman of a mighty commonwealth bound to us by the closest ties. Its people speak the tongue of Shakes peare and Milton. Our literature is yours, as yours is also ours and men of letters in both countries have joined in maintaining its incomparatNe glories.
 English Race Share Traditions
 ITO you, not less than to us, belong the memories of our national heroes from King Alfred down to the days o1 Philip Sidney and Drake, of Raleigh | and Blake and Hampden and the days when the political life of the English 1 stock in America was just beginning You share with us the traditions O | free self government as old as thu | Magma Charta-
 1 We recognize the bond of still deep l CT significance in the common ideal ! which our people cherish. Firs ' among these ideals you value and w | value, are freedom and peace. Privi legged as we have been to be the ex ponents and the examples in nationa | life of the principles of popular self | government based upon equal laws, i now falls to both of us alike to SCI 1 how these principles can be applied 1 beyond our own borders for the goo, of the world
 | Tt was love of liberty, respect fo | laws, good faith and the sacred right of humanity that brought you to tn 1 Old World to help in saving it iron the dangers that were threatenini 1 around, and that arrayed those soldie citizens of yours, whose gallantry W have admired, side by side with our in the war.
 You have now come to help i building up new states amid the ruin | of those that the war has shattere and in laying the solid foundations c a settlement that may stand foreve because it will rest upon the consen of the emancipated nationalitieS. To have eloquently expressed the hope c the American peorle, as it is our hop, that some plan may be devised to at tain the end you have done so muc to promote by which the rick of futur wars may, if possible, be averted, re lieving the nations of the intolerabl burden which fear of war has laid upo them.
 Brother In Arms
 The British nation wishes all sue cess to the deliberations on whic you and we and the great free na tions allied with us are now to ente moved by disinterested good will an a sense of duty commensurate wit the power which we hold as a solem , trust.
 The American and British people have been brothers in arms and the arms have been crowned with victor, We thank with all our hearts you valiant soldiers and sailors for the
 splendid part in that victory and W thank the American people for the noble response to the call of civiliza
 tion and humanitq. May the sam
 brotherly spirit inspire and guide ol united efforts to secure for the worl
 the blessing of an ordered freedom an
 an enduring peace.
 Tn asking you to join with me
 drinking to the health of the presider I wish to say with what pleasure W
 welcome Mrs. Wilson to this country. n