On Friday week the President, after a conference with tho
Prime Dlinister and Mr. Balfour, was the chief guest at a State Banquet given by the King, who, in proposing his guest's health, said.that he spoke at an historic moment, nearly one hundred and fifty years after the proclamation of the American Republic, in welcoming for the first time a President of the United Staten in England—in wekoming one whose insight, calmnees, and dignity in the discharge of his high duties had been watched with admiration. The two nations recognized a bond of common ideals, freedom and peace. The American and the British peoples have been brothers-in-arms, and their arms have been crowned with victory. . . . May the same brotherly spirit inspire and guide our united efforts to swum for the world the blessings of an ordered freedom and an enduring peace."
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