THE SUPREME RECONCILIATION.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16325, 24 September 1918, Page 8

THE SUPREME RECONCILIATION.

(FBOM OCB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, July is. Mr Winston Churchill, in the courts of a speech at the Anglo-Saxon Fellowship mooting, said: — j "A groat harmony exists betr?ea the spirit of the Declaration of Indtv pendence and all we are fighting for now. A similar harmony exists between the principles of that Declaration and what the British Empire lias wished to stand for, and has at last achieved, not only here at home, but in our great self-governing Dominioni throughout the world. (Cheers.) Wo have suffered in tliis country, and in gallant France they havo suffered still moro, but we have suffered so that we can feel for others. There are few homes in Britain where you will not. find an. empty chair ana an aching heart, and we feel in our own 6orrow a profound sympathy for those across the Atlantic whose dear ones have tra. yelled so far to face dangers wo know only too well. (Cheers.) Not British hearts only, but Canadian, Australiaa, New Zealand, and . South African hearts, beat in ; keen common sympathy'with them. (Prolonged cheers.) All-who' have come across the great expanse of the ocean to take part In this conflict feel in an esppcial degres a sympathy, an intense and 'profound sympathy, for the people of the United I States, who havo to wait through these months of anxiety for the newß-of'bat> tie. "Hie greatest actions of men or of nations are spontaneous and in-' stinctive. Thev are not the result they j gain by exact calculations of profit » an<l loss, of. long balancing of douhtfil tnings. Thev happen as if they could not help happening. lam persuaded that the finest and worthiest moment in: the history of Britain was reached on that August night now nearly four years agoi : -when W declared war on Germany war for freedom and civilisation. (Cheers.) Little could we know where it would carry us pr what it wbnld bring to 'us. Deen in the hearts of those whom the Doclaration of Independence styles 'our '•British brethren,' deep in the hearts of your British brethren lies a desire to be- firmly reconciled before aD men ?? their kindred across the Atlantic Ocean, to dwell once more in spirit with their kith , and *it • .stand once more in • battle at their side in a true union of hearts. However long the struggle may be, however cruel ma v be the sufferingi we have to undergo, however complete •nay be. the victory we shall win, how. ever important may be our'share in it we 6eek no nobler reward than that! we seek no higher reward than this! this supreme reconciliation. ,That is the f reward of / Britain; that. is tfco lion s share (Cheers.) They hare arrived safely and in the nick of time. (vu66rß*^