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Show GOOD UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICANS England resents the assertion that America entered the war as a savior of the allied cause or a rescuer of England, and insists that the world realizes that America entered tho war of her own free will to enlist herself as an ally for tho 'great principles at stake, according to Rev. Godfrey Maathowa, pastor of the First Congregational Congre-gational church, who delivered a lecture lec-ture at noon today before the Rotary club of Ogden. Rev. Matthews spoke on the relations of America and England Eng-land In regard to the war. The speaker speak-er is a native of England and is well acquainted with national policies and the underlying events in English history his-tory preceding and after the war. His address was very interesting. He said that the war of the Revolution Revolu-tion had been fought because there was a German prince on the throne of England and the Tory party was in the ascendancy and dominated the government. govern-ment. Tho rank and file were not in favor of Tvarring against the colonies with the colonists. A Tory occupied the prime ministor's chair at that time. Again, in the Boer war, the preponderance prepon-derance of power was held by the Tories Tor-ies and it was their influence and the financial interests of two men which caused England to fight against tho Boers, he said. If England had been accused of a grasping policy, he declared, de-clared, it was duo to these circumstances circum-stances rather than her national spirit. The feeling concerning America in England before the war, he said, was a feeling which had been born through the association of English and Americans Ameri-cans of a certain type, tho tourists and idle rich who spend their vacation in either country not a type by any means representative of tho mass of tho people. It was this which led the English to think that America was a nation of millionaires and would wage a financial war. By tho close contact in tho trenches and the camps of English Eng-lish and American soldiers, he said, this splrii was gradually being eradicated eradi-cated and the two nations were coming com-ing more and more into a state of understanding. un-derstanding. The program for tho Rotary club meeting "was In tho hands of a committee com-mittee consisting of Dr. W. G. Dal-rymplo, Dal-rymplo, Chapin Day and Jack Lynch. It commenced with a dinner. After that a collection of limericks was given giv-en by tho club members and Messrs. Day, Lynch and Dalrymple as the divine di-vine trio, delivered a vocal attack on the gathering, consisting of several aongs. oo |