The Sentinel=record., 1918-12-28
AMERICANS AND BRITISH
 ARE BROTHERS IN ARMS
Address Had Ring of True Friendship and Desire That the Cordial Rela- tions That Have Been Brought About By inc Recent Conditions May Continue Uninterrupted.

London, Dec. 27.-In his speech at the State banquet to President Wal son at Buckingham Palace tonl5ht, King George said:
 This is an historic moment and your visit marks an historic eDOoh. Nearly 150 years have passed since your republic began is independent life and now, for the first time, a president of the Un.ted States is our guest in England
 I've welcome you to the country whence came your ancestors and where stands the homes Ci those from whom sprang Washington and Lincoln We welcome you for yourself as one whose foresight, caimness and dig nity in the discharge of his high du t.es We have watched with admiration. Me see in you the happy union Of the gifts of scholar with those of statesman. You came from a stu dious. academic quiet Life into the full stream of an arduous public life and your deliyerances have combined breadth of view and grasp of world problems with the mastery of q lofty d,ction recalling that of your great orators of the past and of our own.
 You come as the official head ana spokesman Of a mighty common wealth bound to Us by the closest ties. It's people speak the toneue of Shake speare and Milton. Our literature is al q of letters in both coune S< have joined in maintaining its lncompar- able glories
 'eTo you no less than to Us belong the memories Of our national heroes from King Alfred down to the days Of Philip Sidney and Drake, of Raleigh and Blake and Hampden and the days when the political life of the Enlish stock in America was just beeinnins You share with us the traditions of free self government as old as the Magma Charter
 We recognize the bonds of still deeper significance in the common ideals which our people cherish. First among these ideals you value, and We value, freedom and peace. PrNilcs- ed as We have been to be the eX- ponents and the examples in national life of the principles of popular self government based upon equal laws, it now falls to both of Us alike to see how these principles can be aB- piled beyond our own borders for the good of the world.
 Tt wac love of liberty respect for| law, good faith and the sacred rights of humanity that brought you to the old World to help in saving it from the dangers that were threatenln8 around and that arrayed those cIu- zens of yours, whose gailanry we have admired, side by side with ours in the war,
 "You have new come 10 help .n building Up new states am d the ruins of ,hese that the war has shattered. and in laying social fcJAa1uOns ot a| settlement that may stand firm be cause ,t win rest uron the codes of emancipated nations. You have elo- quently expressed the hcpo of the American people, as it IS our hope that some plan may be devised Col attain Che end you have done 90 much to promote by which the risk oi rt- ture wars may il possible, be aver cd. relevn4 the nations Of the iu- tolerabe burden which fear of war has lah upon them
 The British nation wishes ali sue cess Co the dchoeratlons on which you and we and the great free nat ems allied with ua aro Co enter movel [" disntorested good Will anl sense of dnN commensurate with the power which we hold as a solemn true
 ePho Amlrlcan and hrl ah public have been brothers in arms and iheir arms have been crowned Wth victory We ttans You Nilh all our hearts Noar valiant aaldiefe aud salam Tor lbeu ! lcoNrlNpHp ON pA0e rWol