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Show British Do Not Wholly Understand Us In a speech remarkable for Its frankness and evident sincerity, Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador to the United States, told a large gathering gath-ering at the Pilgrims' banquet in London Lon-don in his honor that England did not wholly understand America. ' It was vital that more of the people of England should visit the United States In order to become acquainted ac-quainted with the remarkable characteristics charac-teristics of the people and the extraordinary ex-traordinary Industrial, engineering, civic and educational progress of the country. America had accomplished In the brief century and a half of her existence, exist-ence, he said, what It had taken Great Britain a thousand years of slow progress prog-ress to create. "America has given the world the riches of a continent which but yesterday yes-terday was a wilderness," he continued. con-tinued. "Of course she Is absorbed in her own affairs. How could she be otherwise? Her thought Is In that tremendous structural and Industrial work which has made her one of the greatest nations of the earth. That Is a problem as close to her as our problems prob-lems are to Europeans, but she has not forgotten the trials and sufferings of the outside world; she has given with a bounteous hand relief for millions of starving Russians." MSNMssMasaasaawsaManMajsaNamsaMSMsmi |