New Britain herald., 1918-12-28
WHAT KING GEORGE SAYS.

WHAT KING GEORGE SAYS.
London, Dec. 28.--In his speech at
the state banquet to President Wilson
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,
President of the United States is our
guest in England.
we welcome you to the country
whence came your ancestors and
where stand the homes of those from
whom sprang Washington and Lin
ccln. We welcome you for yourself,
as one whose insight, Calmness and
dignity in the discharge of his high
duties we have watched with admira-
ton. We see in you the happy union
of the gifts of a scholar with those of
q statesman. You came from a
studious, academic quiet into the full
stream of an arduous public life and
your dehverances have combined
breadth of view and grasp of world
problems with the mastery of a lofty
djction recalling that of your great
orators of the past and of our own.
You come as the official head and
spokesman of q mighty common
wealth bound to us by the closest ties.
Its people speak the tongue of Shakes
pcarc and Milton. Our literature is
yours as yours is a lso ours and men of
letters in both countries have joined
in maintaining it's Incompatible
glories.
ITO YOU not less than 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
free self government as old as the
magma charta.
I'VE 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
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 be
yond our own borders for the good Of
the world.
"It Is 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 SOL
der citizens of yours. whose gallantry
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 shattered
and in laying the solid foundations Of
a settlement that may stand firm be-
cause it will rest upon the consent of
the emancipated nationalities. You
have eloquently expressed the hope Of
the American people as it is our hope
that some plan may be devised to at
tain the end you have done SO much
to promote by which the risk of flu
ture wars may, if possible be averted.
relieving the nations of the intolerable
burden which fear of war 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 q 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 civiliza-
ton and humanity. May the same
brotherly spirit inspire and guide our
united effort to secure. for the world
the blessings of an ordered freedom
and an enduring peace.
I'm asking you to join with me in
drinking the health of the President,
I wish to say with what pleasure we
welcome Mrs. Wilson to this. country.
81 drink to the health of the Presi-
dent of the United States and Mrs.
Wilson and to the happiness and pros
perity of the great American nation