19 MAY 1917, Page 3

Equally renowned as an advocate, a diplomatist, and a brilliant

and witty orator, Mr. Choate, whose death took place last Monday night, made friends innumerable during his tenure of the American Ambassadorship in this country, and since his return to the States had continued his good work as a missioner of goodwill between Britain and America. A lifelong lover of peace, he yet hailed with enthusiasm America's entry into the war as consolidating the Anglo-American brotherhood of which he had been so consistent an upholder. He was the Chairman of the New York Committee appointed to receive Mr. Balfour's Mission, and never spoke with greater warmth or deeper feeling than in the speech of welcome delivered only a few days before his death.