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Excellency,
34
16th April, 1923.
I have the highest honour to salute Lady
Stubbs and Your Excellency and to thank the distinction of
Your Excellency's appreciated visit.
I avail myself of this opportunity to join
my personel gratitude to that of the Government of this Colony which is so much obliged to Your Excellency for many and worthy services - some of them in very difficult hours.
Nations are classified by History according
to their qualities, virtues and imperfections.
Portuguese may have many defects, some of which are only against them. They may lack foresight; their administration may be slack and indifferent; but there is a virtue that comes out of all their history and defines their national character
fulness.
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their loyalty and thank-
And for that we can understand the existence
of the most ancient alliance in the world, the one existing since 1370 between Great Britain and Portugal.
The necessity of our common understanding
has been recognized in every great social crisis, and that alliance has been sealed with English and Portuguese blood very often shed on the same battle field.
Out here, in the Far East, where we arrived four centuries ago, the reasons that link undissolubly the policy of our two countries are still greater.
Just now, that England's attitude before China's troubles and unhappiness is counseled by the high- est sentiments of humanity, Portugal wilfully follows that policy, doing its best to co-operate in the same high design.
For that the Government of Macao has
initiated the very important works that within very for
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