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GREAT ANGLO-SAXON as human thought can rench.

FELLOWSHIP MEETING

MR. CHURCHILL AND THE DECLARATION OF 1918.

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I have quoted a famous phrase of Canning'. Let me quote, and adapt to the present. the no less famous words of Pitt-Britain and Anterica have together led the world of freedom, by their example. Together they will save it will save it for freedom A spirit of fervid enthusiasm marked-by their exertions, (Cheers.)

MR. VRURCHILL UN ** TITLE-DEEDS OF the great Anglo-Saxon fellowship net- ing which was held in the Central Hall,

Westminster, and the stirring message which Mr. Winston Churchill delivered to the American people was punctuated with cbeers, and greetel again with the waving of Amirican Hagy. The audience, was composed largely of Americans,' among them many wounded soldiers

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However long the struggle muy be, how this resolution not in the character of evar cruel may be the sufferings we have an Overseas Minister but by a larger and to undergo, however complete may be the wider right. by the right of citizenship vietuiry we shall win, bowaver important of British Empire. This war could not may be our share in it, we seek no nobler be lost to England without being lost to reward than that, we seek no higher liberty, There would be nothing worth reward than this, this greme reconcilia. | while left in life for the free citizen of

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Amerien any more than for the free citi. en of this Empire, if the Prussian spirit was to rule the world. Whatever things Were despotic, whatsover things were dastardly and

detestable, whatsoever things were callous and brutal, whatsoever things „were distinctively German. were just as abemingble to the Freedom- loving American as they were to the free- dom-loving Briton. The two nations had always been alike in fundamentals, they had never been far apart, and now they were bound together. That was the nightiest fact born of this awful war, the

Before the Speakers arrived tremendous harmony exists between the spirit of the all that may follow from it, sc fact wherein lay the hope of the world's f

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WHAT THE WAR MEANS. Mr. Winston Churchill said: We are

That is the reward of Britain; that is met here to-day, in the city of Westnina: the lion's share. (Cheers.) A million American Independence. te, to celebrate the 142nd anniversary of American soldiers are in Europe, (Land We are met cheers). They have arrived, safely and also as brothers in arms, passing, together in the mics of time. (Cheers) Side by through a period of exceptional anxiety side with their French and British coni. and sufering, therefore we seek to draw

arades, they await at this moment the from the past history of our race inspira- furious onslaught of the common foe, and tion and encouragement which will shear that is an event which, in the light of our hearts and fortify and purify our all that land lel up to it, and in the fight resolution and our comradeship, A great cheering greeted the appearance of a lady are fighting for now, (Cheers.) A simi- wonderful event: it is a prodigy it is

Declaration of Independance and all wuf ordinary mundane things. It is

I say it frankly, to transcend the limits:

rehabilitation. 1 He on the platform draped in the Americarlar harmony exists between the principles almost a miraculons event, which alls sudience

ished he could interpret to that the spirit which he knew colours and waving the national dag; and of that Declaration and what the British all-it fills me with a sense of the dominated the people of his own Domin-

Empire has wished to stand for, and has deepest awe. Amid the carnage and con ion. a call for Three, cheers for Woodrow as fast achieved, not only here at home faston of the immense battlefed, amid ferman suberarine sunk on the high sens It was only a week ago that a Wilson received a hearty response from but in our great self-governing Dominißns toe grief and destruction which this a hospital ship chartered by their Govern

(Cheers.) .. Americans and Britons alike cheers no Declaration of Independence is not only wantes sur is over the ment secularis mind prey. Upon that ship were nursing sisters

throughout the world.

The war is causing and has still to cause, there ment a ship laden ouly with messengers of less hearty being inmódiutely afterwards an American document, raised for his Majesty King George. -

the Magna Charta and the Petition of higher than, better than they ever set en

It follows oned of us a feeling of hope by something from Canadian homes-faithful, devoted women, women who, through these weary Right, as the third of, the great title-dreds Viscount Bryer, on taking the chair, on which the liberties of the English design of which we only see a stali trymen of those in that bearing, nur joyed. One feels in the presence of a great years, had ministered to the fellow coun annowierd that he had received a tel-speaking news are founded. (Cheers.)

portion, hut which is developing and un-

ingh them from agony back to health. the Arterien Ambassades. By it we lost an Empire, but by it we folding at this moment; and of which we la the darkness of the night hours they

ale retained an Empire. whom they all regarded with respect and its principles and learning its lesson we and in our generation.

By applying are the necessary instruments in ourselves had sent these messengers of love to their No event since dent." Better that the world should affection, expressing his deep regret that have preserved unbroken communion with the beginning of the Christian era has perish than that these murderers should these powerful Commonwealths our child been more likely to strengthen and restore

live. (Cheers.) That was the spirit of he was waveidably prevented from biasen have founded and have developed, and faith in the moral governments of the Canada, that was the spirit of Britain, who, in this time of stress, have rallied universe than the arrival from the other and that was the spirit of America } (Chrers.). The politien conceptions of deliverance. (Cheers.) One has a feel. spontaneously and nobly to our aid. end of the world of these nighty armies

(Cheers.) bodied in the Declaration of independence ng that it is not all a blind struggle, are the saw as those which were con- sistently expressed at the time by Lord has a certainty that not for nothing hatham, by Mr. Burke, and others, who is the suffering, not too late is the effort. had in turn received them from John and not in vain do heroes die. (Cheers.) Hampden and Algernon Sydney, They There is one thing more I want to say, are political conceptions which spring and it is a great thing to say. The from the same source. They spring from essential purposes of this war do not ad Major George Haven Patnan moved. the same well and that well is bere by mit of a compromise (Prolonged cheers.) That this meeting views with profound the banks of the Thames in this famous If we were fighting merely for territorial satisfaction the fact that to-day the tra island which we have guarded all these gains, or were engaged in a dynastie orrent English-speaking peoples should find years, and is the birthplace and the commercial quarrel, no doubt those would themires for the fist time fighting side: cradle of the British and American rates. be matters to be adjusted by barguining, by side in the cause of justice and liberry.” (Cheers)

But this war has became an open conf Major Putna said he had been about It is English wisdom, it is that peculiar fliet between Christian civilisation and to address the audience as fellow-citi- political sagacity and sense of practical iratific barbarism. (Cheers.) The line tens," and really he thought he might do truth which animates the great docucient is clearly drawn between the nations so, without regarding the 3,000 miles of which is in the minds of all Americans where the people own the Governments the Atlantic The Declaration of Inde- today. Wherever men seek to frame poli and the nations where the Governments pendence declared political" cies or constitutions which are intended own the proples. Our struggle is between Lion, and he was glad to remember that to safeguard the citizen, be he rich or

instruments which peacefully endeavour the separation had to do only with politi poor, on the one hand from the shame to quell and quench the brutish, trencher cal relations Individual relations had of despotism, and on the other from the ous, predatory promptings of human, na-hever been given ap Americans would iniseries of anarchy, which are devised toiture, and a system which has deliberately never be willing to give up their Eng- fostered, organised, arred, and exploited fish heritage. It was the sturdy will power of the New England people, that ment. We are all but mortals. No race. had been able to control and no country, has a monopoly of good or the races other than English, so that Ame evil, but face to face with the fact of this could fairly call itself an English war who can doubt that the struggle in nation. This was the proper day to make which we are engaged is in reality, literal. a new declaration, a declaration not of

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Lord Bryce said: This is independence Day. For the people of the United States it is the national birthday, the day when the tree of their separate national life was planted. But it was planted in war. For mary a year the day was relerated the pited States with hostility and debance By us in Britain, it was re- membered with sorrow, as marking the severance of previous ties. And now. after 12 years, it is being celebrated by both peoples with like enthusiasm by the children of those who revelled against the British Crown in 1773, ns by the children, of those who sadly numitted the loss of one of that Crown's choicest jewels. This fact, this joint celebration, is more eloquent than any words. What had been 4 day of anger on one side, and of grief on the other, has become for both a day of affection and rejoicing. (Cheers.) combine personal liberty with respect for

der show to the law and love of and have been gained or st for each country, these desires are sincerely before the It may be thought that if some political makers of constitutional law, it is to this connection between them had been pre original inspiration which is the product served: wo things at least would have of the Engish soil, which is the outcome ben gained. The war of 1512-an un-of the Anglo-Saxon mind, it is to that mixed evil for both nations would have they will inevitably be drawn. We ther Jen avoited and though the North Ame fore feel no sense of division in celebrat rican Colonies would soon have become in this occasion, and we join in perfect It is a struggle between right and wrong. of each other, and belonged together. pinctically self-governing, as Canada is sincerity and perfect simplicity with cur

and as such it is not capable of any soluCheers) His forefathers to use Arneri. today, the mediation of the Mother. Coun- Ameriena kith and kein in enumemorating tion which is not absolute. (Cheeks) enn slang had no use for King George try would probably have averted the War the glorious establishment of theif Germany must know that she is betten. 111. with his Prussian theories of Secession, and secured the peaceable to

tionhood. (Cheers.) also, we Bri-Germany must feel that she is beaten. domination: But the descendants of his extinction of negro slavery. On the other tish who have been so long in this strug. Her defeat must be expressed in terms hand, is may base been well for us and gle, express our joy and gratitude for and facts, which will for all time deter for the world that no one Stale so power- the mighty alt and the timely aid which others from emulating her crimes, and ful as Britain and America united in America has brought, and is bringing, to will effectually safeguard us against their one would have been should have grown the Allied" cause." (Chners.) When repetition. (L'heers.) up. A State se immensely strong might have seen during the last few weeks the But the tierman people have at any have been led into aggression and in-plendour of American manhood striding rate this assurance, that we claim for justion by the thirst for world dominion-forward on all the roads of France and ourselves ao natural or fundamental right a passion whose fatal consequences of Flanders, I have experienced emotions that we should not be obliged, and even see in the moral degradation of Prussian have suffered in this country, hud in secure for them,

which words cannot describe. (Cheers) be willing, under all circumstances to ised Giremany.

AN ANGLO-AMERICAN FEDERATION. We cannot treat them What ferees have brought Britain, and gallant France, they have suffered still as they have treated Alsace-Lorraine or sity), who secunded the resolution, said

Professor H. S. Canby (Yale Univer America again together, and how comes more, but we have suffered as that we can Belgium, or Rassik, or as they would Americans were fighting beside the Bri it that in the fourth generation another feel for others." There are few homes treat us all if they had the power. We the love and confidence of his people-empty chair and an aching heart, and principles for which we are fighting. We They had done with national isolation. King George, King George who enjoys in Britain where you will not find an cannot do it, for we are, bound by the tish, and they proposed to stay with the the British when the war was won. (Cheers.) cheers)is inining in this celebration, wafel in our own sorrow and profound must cleave to those principles, for they It was not an Alliance that was wanted, which records the extinction of all the sympathy for those across the Atlantic will arm our fighting strength, and will but something dutter and more durable bitterness that arose in the days of Georgehuse dear ones have travelled so far to enable us to use with wisdom and with not an Alliance in the bad old sense 1.- bitterness that could never have face dangers we know only too well justice the victory which we shall win the term, an Alliance which served arisen had the will of the British

(Chref.) Not. British hearts only, but (Cheers.) date in rules today, or the Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and victory, these principles will protect the partners, has a rat union of like-mind Whatever the extent of our turn and died, or, worse still changed severance Sale - benuse we had then a South African hearts, beat in keen com- German people. The Declaration of peoples who would work and fight side Parliame it on to both people is And Indian.")

(A Voice: Independence, and all that it implies, by side because their objectives were the Court and a non-representative mon sympathy with thein.

Yes, Indian as well must cover them. When all those weapons same. What they wanted was some new the love of freedom and the faith in free-Prolonged cheers.)

in which German militarists have dom which, sawn long ago in English All who have come across the great ex their trust have been broken in their free to develop their own purely national Put form of federation which would leave both hearts, came to full flower in the days of panses of the oceant to take part in this hands, when all the preparations on which qualities, a federation which would make WOMEN WAR WORKERS and Cargo for the above Ports. Passengers Milton and Hampden, and establined "conflict feel in an especial degree a sym- they have lavished the energy and schemes them one force in the creat aims of civil civil and religious liberty on founde-pathy, an intense and profound rym of fifty years have failed, then the Gersation a federation in which. if Ameri tions never thereafter to be shaken. Deep pathy, for the people of the United man people will find themselves protected cans and Britons were worthy of their down in the heart of each, almost too State, who have to wait through these by those simple, elemental principles of deep for expression. there has been the months of anxiety for the news of battle. right and freedom against which they will wish to join. Britain was the mother of traditions, all nations would some day sense that the other possessed those essen- The greatest actions of men or of nations have warfed so long in vain, (Cheers.) Parliaments; America made the first ex- tial virtues by which nations live; and are spontaneous and instinctive. They are So let us celebrate to-day not only the periment in national democracy. If the cach had a secret pride in seeing that not the result they gain by exact calcula Declaration of Independence, let us pro-urgencies of the future should require the other retained what both felt to be tions of profit and loss of long balancing claim a true comradeship of Britain and some new and further experiment it would the finest characteristics of the ancient of doubtful things. They happen as if America, to stand together till the war stock. For half a century the sense of they could not help happening I

is done, in all trials, in all difficulties, at States to make the first step forward.

be for the British Empire and the United unity had been growing closer, when an persuaded that the finest and worthiest all costs, wherever the war may lead us, event happened which revealed both na-moment, in the history of Britain was right to the very end.

Major-General Biddle (commanding the (Cheers.) tions to themselves and to one another reached on that August night, now nearly compromise on the main purpose, no peace he had only to express the heartfelt thanks No United States Foreca in England) aaid We in England have scarcely yet realised four years ago, when we declared civil with Padre arationrepented and appreciation of the American Army

wrong is the of July for on Germany, war for freedom isation. (Checrs.)

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the magnitude of the new departure which America tock when she entered the war. Duty called on her to help to save the Little could we know where it would invite you to make in common with me through Great Britain to the battle front.

4th, 1918, and that is a declaration which done, for them while they were passing Hongkong St. Andrew's Society world, and she answered the call of duty carry us or what it would bring to us. To quote the words which are on every A new star blazed forth in the sky like Like the United States. we entered the American lip to-day and for which I aak States Naval Forces) said the two great Admiral Sims (commanding the United. that which startled out astronomers three war a peaceful nation, utterly unpre the support of this Declaration: weeks ago. But it is a star whose bright-pared for aggression in any form. Like a firm reliance on the protection of a together by ties stronger than those of With English-speaking races were now bound the United States, we entered the war Divine providence, we mutually pledge blood. First came her Navy, helping the ships without counting the cost, a cost that has to each other our lives, our fortunes, and Arrerican naval forces in European waters For more than a year all the of Britain to hunt down those wild beasts been far more terrible than our own. our sacred honour." (Cheers.) of the sea, who rise from their green lairs sorobrę expectations, without becking Churchill then moved the following tish Fleet, and with the other fleets

had actually been brigaded with the Bri- beneath the waves to murder the innocent. reward of any kind. (Cheers.) What is Then, while in the American cities the the reward, the

the Allies. He might explain that this utterly unexpected resolution:

had no connection with the competence ***This meeting of the Anglo-Saxon elder men have been watching with breath reward, which is coming to us beyond the

Fellow- less anxiety for every report brought hour obvious promise and hopes, we cherished, thi, wan te the Proudon on July 4th forces (Laughter and cheers.) But from ni American admirals to direct their own by hour along the cables from the of our unhesitating response to the ap- the Coited States their heartfelt greetings unity of command and direction was ine

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irresistibly in consequence 1914, sends to President and Peuple of the beginning they had recognised that perilled front in France, we se young soldiers of America come swara-peals of Belgium and "France? Terrien the 142nd anniversary of the Deainra- ing over the ocean in an ever-growing terial indemnities, commercial advant. tion of American Independence. They are element of success. The American host which begins to be counted by mil ages-what are they? Such matters are rejoice that the love of liberty and justice Navy had now 250 ships of all classes lions:

(Cheers!) They come with the utterly, subservient to the moral issues and on which the American nation was founded: European waters, and there was a per- co-operating with the Allied Acéta in passion of crusaders, eager to bear the moral consequences of this war. (Cheers.) and in the present time of trial, have united sonnel of 3,000 officers and 40,000 men shock of battle in a snered cause. The Deep in the hearts of those whom the the whole English-speaking family in New World-to: use the famous phrase Declaration of Independence styles our brotherhoed of arms. They congratulate the to the Adriatic. Very soon 150 more sub- serving with them from the White Sen which Canning pronounced nearly a cen-British brethren," deep in the hearts of United States Government and Navy on marine chasers would be at work in the tury ago has come to redress the your British brethren lies a desire to the marvellous achievement involved in the balance of the Old." Its fresh and fery he firmly reconciled before all men and safe transportation to the battlefields of three times the present number of Ameri- war zone, and daring the coming year spirit has the promise of victory. This all history to their kindred across the Europe of the first million soldiers of the Pan destroyers would be fighting. The spirit, this zeal to serve the cause of right, Atlantic Ocean, 'to dwell core In Aulerican army. They affirm their devotion German submarine campaign was beaten. kelve of a common duty and a com- spirit with their kith and kin,, and stand to the noble and right ous cause in which they are losing submarines faster thn But, these perils which American once more in battle at their side in a we fe fighting, and their faith that, by from the people) are facing side by side predicted the arrival of a day of struggle tory will, he won for freedom and humanity sink them. (Cheers.) He could say with

soldiers (citizen armies drawn true union of hearts. One prophetic voice the help of God a complete and inating vic upon the plains of France, all this has which would find England and the United brought Britain and America closer than states in battle. It seemed to most of us ever closer even than they were under that our desire for union and reconcilia

ne government before that far-off day of tion in sentiment with the United States Independence, which we are celebrating would not be attained in our lifetime. It now and here. These things will be the has come to pass already, and every day surest pledge of affection and co-opera- it is being emphasised, and every day is tion in a future stretching before us far being made more real and more lasting

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The resolution was carried with enthu- 1918. a word which suggested to him the spirit the singing of "God Save the King" nod of their sons at war. But be seconded America

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