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Show HOUSE WARMLY EULOGIZED BY LLOYD GEORGE LOXDOX, Dec. 15. When a correspondent corre-spondent of the Associated Press called on Premier Lloyd George with the news of the arrival in America of the House mission the premier authorized the following fol-lowing statement: I am very glad to learn of the return re-turn of the first great American mis- 1 sion to Europe. I say first, because I hope it will be tbe prelude to many more, lor the experience we have sained on this occasion has brought home to me, even more strongly than before, the paramount importance of ever closer and more constant association asso-ciation between the United States, the free democracies of Europe and the nations of the British commonwealth, common-wealth, not only in the prosecution of the war, but in future contact in the world's affairs. The mission which has thus suc- ! cessfully terminated us labors was, I so far as we are concerned, an un-1 un-1 qualified success. It did not receive a great deal of advertisement at the time, because Colonel House was rightly insistent that it was to be, first and last, a business affair. But the fruits of its labors will be seen by all in time to come. It not only enabled the United States and the allies' to co-ordinate their prep arations so as to produce the maxi-j. mum military effort in the shortest; space of time against the corn mm enemy; it brought fresh minds and a new perspective to bear upon the problems of the allies. Its work culminated in the first meeting pf the supreme war council at Versailles, Ver-sailles, the outward and visible sipn of new unity and new vipor in the 1 co-operation of the great democrat os 1 , of the world in their flht for the triumph of the ideals which they represent. rep-resent. To that conference President ' il-son il-son could not have sent a more sa-pa.-Mons and useful representative than Colonel Houhc and the oilier members mem-bers of the mission who accompanied him. Colonel House, indeed, ha a proved himself not. only a. worthy representative of t lie 1 iniled Slates, but lias won t he friendship and rc-sper-t of all tho Kuropenn allies. |