BRITAIN AND AMERICA.
LONDON, February 7. The Pilgrims' Club dinner in honour of Mr James Bryce (the newly-appointed Ambassador at Washington) was given in the Savoy Hotel. Mr Whitelaw Reid (the American Ambassador) and Mr Bryce delivered notable speeches, tracing the growth of mutual pride and brotherhood between Britain and America. - Mr Bryce remarked that peace with others was a guarantee of world-wide tranquillity, but one peace should be the closest — namely, that with those of our own blood and speech. That was the aim of everyone, from the British King, Premier, and Foreign Secretary down to the humblest. It was a sentiment shared by Australia,. Canada, and the whole Empire* The message he had to deliver * was one of true sympathy in. weal or woe — a message of .enduring friendship between Britain and America. « The company included Sir H. M. Durand (late Ambassador at Washington), Mr Haldane, and the Japanese Ambassador. Lord Roberts, who presided, mentioned that cablegrams had been received from the Eail of Aberdeen. Mr J. L. Choate (formerly United States Ambassador in London), and the Pilgrim:.' Club of America,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2761, 13 February 1907, Page 26
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