THE WAR AND EIGHTS OF MEN
STRUGGLE BETWEEN DEMOCRACY
AND DESPOTISM.
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZBALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, 16th July. Lord Reading (British Ambassador at Washington), in a speech delivered at the Fourth of July; celebrations, paid a tribute to- the spirit of the French people during the four years' struggle, in which "her unbreakable spirit (had risen above every blow." Referring to the alliancebetween England, France, and the United' States, he said: "It is difficult to overestimate the effect this alliance will have upon the progress of humanity and the' peace of the world. The war is a struggle between two conceptions of the rights of man, between democracy and despotism."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 16, 18 July 1918, Page 7
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