THE FREEDOM OF LONDON.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 123, 1 June 1910, Page 8

THE FREEDOM OF LONDON.

CONFERRED ON MR ROOSE-

VELT

SPEECH ON BRITAIN'S DUTY

TOWARDS EGYPT

[PEESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received' June 1, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 31. Mr Roosevelt was driven in the Lord Mayor's coach to the Guildhall and presented with the Freedom of i;he City. In responding, Mr Roosevelt remarked that England had given Egypt the best Government it had had for two thousand years; but recent events, especially in connection with the assassination of Boutros Pasha, "showed that in certain vital points you have erred in weakness :and timidity. Sentimentality, where .fanatical peoples are concerned, may cause more'liartn'than violence and injustice. It is the most broken reed on which righteousness can lean. " ThesfiNationalists, are neither desirous nor capable of guaranteeing primary justice." Either it was Britain's right or it was not to be in Egypt and establish order. If it were >not, she/should ( quit; if, as he hoped, she felt it her duty to stay she must keep order, punish murder, and bring to justice all inciting to or condoning crime. Some nation must govern Egypt, and he believed that the British would decide that it was the duty of their nation. Mr Roosevelt afterwards , lunched with the Lord Mayor,at the Mansion Bouse. He was cordially greeted by -fche crowds in the streets.