Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-05
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London Tribute To John w. Davis
The London Mail under date OF
March 5, pays a fitting tribute to
Ambassador John w. Davis, Of West
Virginia, who has recently returned
to the United States. The article
follows:
The banquet given by the Pill
grims at the Hotel Victoria, London,
on February % to Mr. John W. Da.
Wis, the departing American Am,
bassador, resembled as little as pos
sible an official farewell dinner. In
Guiding the Prince Of Wales the
great majority Of the $50 guests
were personal friends of Mr.. la
Wis, and when the Prince sent his
charmingly simple words of fare
well to Mr. Davis the whole gath
ering felt that there was no Off
cial courtesy in his words of regret.
The Prince said that Mr.. Davis
had been more than an Ambassador,
he was true friend Il can assure
him of our enduring friendship and
know ! am voicing the feeling Of
all present when | say that with
the departure of his EXcellency and
his wife we are losing two good
friends We shall miss them very
much. We wish them God speed.
National sportsmanehip
Mr.. Davis, replying, said: God
oity the sherman of either the Uni
ted States or Great Britain who
brings them into collision if ever
his crew and passengers get their
hands on him.
For myself, | have an unwaYer.
ing, an indestructible faith in what
for want of a better name may be
called the 'sportsmanship,' in the
love of justice which animates both
peoples. II one is right and the 9th
er wrong, the one in the wrong
will admit it, as he has done in the
past, with no sense of injured pride
or wounded egotism. II neither is
wholly wrong Or wholly right, we
shall know how to give and take,
and to find as we have done in the
past, the golden mean of compro
mise between our contending inter
ests, shall both be ready, as We
have been in the past to throw our
fortunes into the scales of justice
and let the wisdom OF impartial
minds judge between us"
Lord Reddne's Tribute
Lord Reading, presiding on March
g at a luncheon given by the Eng
disappearing Union to the retiring
American Ambassador, said that the
duties of an Ambassador were to
represent the views, the aspirations,
IL trxr in, frx in
which he was sent, to strive to un
derstand the people OF the country
among whom he was living, and to
bring to that understanding sympa'
thy and comprehension. Above all,
they were to obtain the confidence
of the people and to strive to recon
Gle differences between the two
countries
II that were so, they had no hes
itation in acclaiming Mr.. Davis as
triumphant representative of Am
erican diplomacy. There were some
who said the two nations were jeal-
GUS Of each other-why, he could
not conceive. There was room for
both of them, pursuing the same OBJ
ject and ideals.
"Readng And Davis"
Mr. Davis said that that would be
the last appearance on any stage of
the more Or less post,prandial team
of Reading and Davis" The senior
partner was leaving the law for dip.
lomacy and the junior diplomacy for
law. 1t might have been supposed
that there were limits to its equili-
brium, but for two years it had
been reasonably constant First be
fore this audience, and then before
that, they had exhibited, and, if the