Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-12-28
KING GEORGES SPEECH
AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE

london. Dec. Elm his speech at
the state han,,fct to President Wilson
at 'I.uckinc hHn Palace tonight King
George said "'fhis is an historic mo-
ilrnt and Your visit marks an historic
epoch Nearly l5a Years have passed
since Noar republic began lis indie
p"nGcn. lie and now. for the first
time, President of the United State:
IL oIir guest in England. We welcome
YOU to TIE country whence c;ne your
ancestors. where stands tn, bones of
those from whom sprane Washing
ton and '.inct IN. We welcome YOU for
Yourself rs one whose insight. calm
! ness and dignity in the discharge of
! high duties we ilavc watched With adj
miratiCn. We see in You the happy
union Of the gifts of n scholar with
those of "A Statesman. TOu came from
Il studfous, academic. quiet stream of
arduouG public lie and your deliver
tuCes have combined breadth OF view
and grasps OF world problem with the
maStc'% q! Il lofty uiction recalling
thai OF NoUr great orators of tho past
and Of our -Wn
You come as the official head ana
Spokesman of q mighty common
w.alt' bound 10 lis by the closest ties
Its people speak the tongue OF
Shakespeare and Milton Our litera-
turo is yours rs yours is also ours and
men ot letters in both countries have
Joined in maintaining its :ncompar-
able Glorics. To YOU. not less than
to us. belong tho memories Of our
nations heroes from King Alfred
down to the days Of Philip Sidney and
/ Drake of Raleigh and Blake and
| Hampton and the days when the
political life of the English stock in
America was just beginning ..
You share with us the fractions o.
free self government as old as the
Magma Charta. We recognize the bond
OF still deeper significance in the
common ideals which our people
cherish First among those ideals you
value. and we value. freedom and
peace. Privileged as we have been to
the opponents and the examples in
national life of the principles OF pop
ular sell government based upon
equal laws it row falls to both OF us
alike TO see how these principles can
hc applied haNond our own borders
Tor the good of the world.
1T was 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 threatening
around. and that arraigned those
soldier citizens OF yours. whose gall
lantry we have admired, side by side
with ours in the war
You have now come to help in
building up new states amid the
ruins of those that the war has shat
tered. and in laying the solid foun-
dations of settlement that may
stand firm because it will rest upon
the consent oc the emaneipated ma
tionaIities. You have elouuently ex-
pressed the hope of the American
people. as it is our hope that some
plan may he devised to attain the end
you have done so much to promote,
by which the risk Of future wars
may. il possible, be averted. reliev-
ing the nations of the intolerable
burden which fear of wars has laid
upon them.
The British nation wishes all sue
cess to the deliberations on which you
and we and the great free nations al
lied with us are now to enter moved by
disinterested good will and a sense of
duty commensurate with the power
which we hold as A solemn trust.
The American and British peoples
have brothers in arms and their
arms have been crowned with vic
tory We thank with all our hearts
your valiant soldiers and sailors for
their splendid part in that victory as