The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-09
NEW YORK HOLDS MAMMOTHBR|TA|N
 DAY CELEBRATION
Messages From King George, Lloyd George and Other Notables Are Read by
 Alton B. Parker

New York, December 8.--A message from King George. expressing the hope that Britons and Americans may be as united in peace as they were in war, was read today at meeting in the Hippo drome arranged as the climax of New York's celebration of Britain day.
 The Kings message. read by Alton B. Barker, who presided, stated that the people of the British empire join with me in thanking you and those associated with you for your efforts in promoting this celebration. which will be welcomed as a proof of the true and lasting friend- ship of the United States
 Tt will be a particular satisfaction to my navy and army to feel that they have won the esteem of the nation which has sent so many gallant men to suffer with them the trials of this great war and to share in the glories of final vic- tory," continued the message.
 ''In the name of the British empire, I thank the people of the United States of America, and I pray that the coming era of peace may find our two nations always united as they are today
 message from Premier Lloyd George read:
 T am always delighted with any work which helps to make our two nations understand one another better. We shall never forget the prompt and decisive re- sponse of the American President and people to the allied call this spring and the invaluable part played by the Ameri- can navy In helping to free the sea from the German pests'
 Messages from Foreign Minister Bal four, Field Marshal Haig, Admrals Beatty and Jelicoe, Premier Clemen- ceau of France, and Ambassador Jusser- and were also read to the audience which included army and navy officers of high rank.
 Besides addresses by Sir Henry Babing- ton Smith, acting British high commits soner; MT. Parker, Charles E. Hughes Samuel Gompers, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, and Dr. George E. Vincent, head of the Rockefeller foundation, the programme included tableaux portraying the sinking of the British warship Vindictive in the harbor at Zebrugge.
 In introducing the speaker, MT. Par ker called attention to the fact that America was now, celebrating Britain day as Britons last July had celebrated Americas Independence day, and paid tribute to Great Britains work in the war.
 Sir Henry declared in his address that there Is nothing in the world Britons value more than the unity of feeling which has been established between the branches of the English speaking peo- pies of the world''
 Whispers have gone around that the next war would be between America and England I hope to God that 1t is true, for if 1t be true. it means that there will be no next war. It would mean that war has vanished forever from the earth"
 MT. Hughes asserted that the whole hearted tribute which we pay today to Great Britain expresses the profound sense of obligation which we owe to Great Britain for services and sacri- fices which in variety and extent have no parallel in human history"
 Tt is tribute which voices our rec ognition of the fact that our own con- tribution, important and decisive as 1t was, was made possible only by Brit aims aid," he continued. Otherwise we should have stood helpless confined to our own shores. the next victims of a ruthless and brutal despotism."
 Asserting that we have taken from Great Britain tour lessons in political history" and have written magma charta
 into our constitution, MT. Hughes de- clared that we have inherited the result of the struggle of men and women to ob- tain human rights against every form of exploitation of greed or assertion, of powers, and today, as never before, Great Britain and the United States stand together as the guarantors of freedom individual and national"
 MT. Gompers declared that if he sim ply said amen to the sentiments expressed at the meeting he could no better pay tribute to Great Britain and her men and women In this great struggle.
 He added, however, that he was "proud to have been one among many to help crystalize the sentiment of the people of our country so that they could make common cause with our allies" as the act of the German authorities in burn- ing the records showing the culpabili- ty of the imperial German government for this war Is a confession of guilt" and Britan's and Americas unpreparedness 8 proof that it was not a war of "mili- tarism against militarism.'