Like every other British newspaper, we should like to express
our welcome to the members of the American Bar Association, who are the guests of the English Lawyers and Canadian Bar Associations. The American Bar Association was welcomed on Monday under the historic roof of Westminster Hall by the Lord Chancellor. The legal link is by no means the least of those which bind this country and the United States. The laws and usages of a nation are perhaps the very best outward expression of its way of thinking and its whole shape of mind. Two great nations which have the same legal system and the same conception of justice cannot really be very far apart in their fundamental attitude of mind. Mr. Hughes, the American Secretary of State, is the President of his country's Bar Association, and his presence in London this week is, of course, of inter- national importance. Although he comes purely in his legal capacity, and not by any means as a Secretary of State, the mere fact that he will be meeting Mr. MacDonald while the London Conference is sitting —and will be able thus at first hand to express the views and to define the feelings of his Government—is of inestimable value. * *
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