Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-28
KING Of ENGLAND
EXP RESSES HOPE
To PREVENT WARS

tsr hoHe"Na IouEAAI sPectSt EAsEn WlRal
London, Dec. an his speech al
the safe banquet to President Wilson
at Buckinsham palace tonight, King
George said:
This is an historic moment and
your visit marks an historic epoch.
Nearly $50 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.
I'VE welcome YOU to the country
whence came your ancestors and
where stands the homes of those from
whom sprang Washington and Lin
coin. We welcome you for yourself
as one whose insight calmness and
dignity in the discharge of his high
duties we have watched with admiral
ton. We see in you the happy union
of the gifts of scholar with those of
statesman. You came from a stu
dious. academic quiet into the fun
stream of an arduous public life and
your deliverances 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
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wealth bound to us by the closest ties.
the 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 join
ed in maintaining its Incompatible
glories.
ITO you. not less than to MS. 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 free self government as
old as the Magma Charta.
1--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
rs we have been to be the opponents
and the examples in national life of
the principles of popular self govern
ment based upon equal laws it now
falls to both of us alike to see how
these principles can be applied beyond
our own borders for the good of the
world.
Hopes to End Wars.
1
laws, good faith and the sacred rights !
of humanity that brought you to thei
old world to help in saving it from |
the dangers that were threatening |
around and that arrayed those soldier
citizens of yours. whose gallantly we
have admired. side by side with ours /,
in the war.
"You have now come to help in /
building UP new states and amid the
ruins of those that the war has shat |
tered and in laying the solid founda-
tons of a settlement that may stand [
forever because it will rest upon the |
consent of the emancipated rationale |
ties. You have eloquently expressed I
the hope of the American people as it
is our hope, that some plan may be /
devised ito attain the end YOU have |
done so much to promote by which |
the risk of future wars may, if pos /
sble. be ayerted, relieving the ma
tons of the intolerable burden which !
fear of war has laid upon them
THE British nation wishes all
success to the deliberations on which
you and we and the great free nations
allied with us are now to enter,
moved hv disinterested good will and
n sense of duty commensurate with
the power which we hold as a solemn
trust.
THE American and British peoples
have been brothers in arms and their
arms have been crowned with victory.
We thank with all our hearts your
valiant soldiers and sailors for their
splendid part in that victory as we
thank the American people for their
noble response to the call of civilizi-
ton and humanity. May the same
brotherly spirit inspire and guide our
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the blessing of an ordered freedom
and an enduring peace,
I'm asking you to join with me in
drinking to the health of the presi-
dent wish to say with what pleasure
we welcome Mrs. Wilson to this coun-
try.
II drink to the health of the presi-
dent of the United States and Mrs.
Wilson and to the happiness and
prosperity of the great american ma
ton"