Balfour, Viviani and Joffre; Their Speeches and Other Public Utterances in America, and Those of Italian, Belgian and Russian Commissioners During the Great War; With an Account of the Arrival of Our Warships and Soldiers in England and (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: history of the world; an epoch in which all the civilized nations roused themselves in unity to deal with one of their number which has forgotten its responsibilities, forgotten its duties, and which, in unscrupulous lust for universal domination, has brought the greatest of known calamities upon the world. Gentlemen, I have detained you too long, but I was led away by my subject. On my own behalf and on behalf of my friends around me, I beg to thank you for the unique honor which you have paid to us, and, through us, to our country, to our cause, which is your cause, and to the future of civilization, which is yours as much as ours. I thank you. MR. BALFOUR IN RICHMOND On May 19 Mr. Balfour, who had then returned to Washington after his New York visit, went with others of the British mission to Richmond, and received a most hospitable welcome. The old Confederate capital made memorable this brief call of courtesy on the South. As the special train entered the station, a salute of nineteen guns was fired, and a band played "God Save the King," the party being welcomed by Governor Stuart and Mayor Ainslee, while several companies of the Virginia Military Institute cadet corps stood at salute. Automobiles first took the party through crowded, cheering, flag-decked lines of people, and then to the Governor's mansion for luncheon. The house was decorated with the Stars and Stripes, the Union Jack, and the Tricolor. A brilliant assemblage of Virginians greeted Mr. Balfour. Governor Stuart, in his toast to the King, holding a glass of water, said: In this glass I hold that which by the sovereign will of the people of Virginia is to-day the wine of the country, clear as the principles of liberty and justice in which we make common cause, pure as the union of heart and purpose...