The American Ambassador, Mr. J. W. Davis, addressed to the
American Luncheon Club on Friday week a little speech which in substance and taste proved him a worthy heir to the high traditions of his office. He was glad indeed that it " had not been abolished before my turn " In France lie had learned. something of the demands and the curse of modern war ; but he had the privilege of seeing the Stars and Stripes waving on the east bank of the Rhine. When Americana regarded America's share in the war, besiide that of her Allies, " boasting dies on our lips before it is uttered "—though America's force exerted had been one and a quarter times that of France, and three-quarters that of Britain. For her share in the war America found com- pensation in a new sense of national unity ; a new sense of strength—the strength that lies in freedom ; a new sense of duty; and a new sense of kinship with Great Britain at home and oversee ; and finally, tnere was a sense of victory and the triumph of right over wrong, of justice over injustice, of humanity over barbarism—" a victory that bids men look up and hope again."
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