The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-28
Most Regal Setting in History OF Britain Greets President Al Precedent Breaking Dinner
King George WelcomesPre ident as Official Spokes- man of Mighty Common wealth Bound to Britain by Closest Ties
Br Assacrated Press


 London, December 27.-In his speech at the state banquet to President Wilson at Buckingham palace tonight King George said:
 1 This is an historic moment and your visit marks an historic epoch Nearly lbo years have passed since s,our relzub- lie began it's Independent life and now, Ier the first time, President of tho 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 sprang Washington and Lincoln. We welcome you for yourself as one whose insight. calmness and dignity inc the discharge of his high duties we have watched with admiration. We see in you the happy union of the gifts of scholar with those of statesman. You came from stu dious, academic quiet into the full stream of an arduous public life and your deliy- erances have combined breadth of view and grasp of world problems with the mastery of lofty diction recalling that of your great orators of the past and of our own.
 You come as the official head and spokesman of mighty commonwealth bound to us by the closest ties. It's people speak the tongue of Shakespeare and Milton. Our literature is yours, as yours is also ours, and men of letters in both countries have joined in maintain ing it's incomparable glories.
 ITO you, not 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 English stock in America was just beginning. You share with us the traditions of self-governmenl as old as the Magma Charta.
 COMMON IDEALS
 We recognize the bond of still deeper significance in the common ideals which our people cherish First among those ideals you vape, and we value. freedom and peace. Privileged as we have been to be the opponents and the examples in ma ational 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 applied be ! yond our own borders for the good of the world.
 EIts was iONe or ilUeTty, respect TOT law, good faith and the sacred rights of humanity that brought you to the old world to help in saving il from the dam gers that were theatening around and that arraigned those soldier -citizens of yours. whose gallaptry we have admired, side by side with ours in the war s'You have now come to help in build ing up new states amid the ruins of those that the war has shattered and in laying the solid foundations of a set clement that may stand firm because 1t will rest upon the consent of the eman- cipated nationalities You have eloquent .ly expressed the hope of the American people as it is our hope. that some plan may be devised to attain the end you have done SO much to promote by which the risk of future wars may. if possible, be averted relieving tne nations of the in- tolerable burden which fear of war has laid upon them.
 WISH FULL SUCCESS
 ssThe British nation wishes all success 8tosthe deliberations on which you and we and the great free nations allied
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