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Show SIR AUCKLAND, MEW AMBASSADOR TO U. S. GUEST OF AMERICANS Common Language Both Bond and Barrier Briton Says at i Luncheon LOOK UNDER SURFACE , FOR GOLD, HE SAYS Judge England by Action During Dur-ing War and America Also, Noble Suggests 1 ONDON, March 12. Sir Auckland Geddcb, the newly appointed amtiassa-dor amtiassa-dor io the United States, mad his firi. speech today sinco his appoint-fent appoint-fent was announced, addressing a aruc- gathering in his honor ni tho AnnTlcnn Luncheon club. The unbas-sa,tor, unbas-sa,tor, John W. Davis, presided. S'r Auckland spoke of the characteristics character-istics of the American and English people and the essentiality birding t'loin together. Referring to the rlKuses "our American cousins' and "blood is thicker lhan water," th ambassador am-bassador saicl he felt.at. first th&t lve was; dealing wlUi;agreat--fcivilizatlbn wjiiqh seemed different. Jrom - ij( he had met until the crust was broken and "I found myself Sainong people I understand." continued: The cure for such ills as exist is, I Jin sure, frankly to recognize that the common language is at gnce a bond and a barrier, and to woil. to strengthen its binding power and weaken its separating influence, and to v.'or'r. to strengthen it is not the wo:k of a day or of a year. Englishmen Braying. "The Englishman who saw his best girl off with' an American soldier or sailor is going to continue braying tlwi he dislikes Americans, whi?"h is not what he really means at all. Wliat he leally means is '1 dislike seeing my girl lake any notice of another male.' 'What we all want more conspicuously conspicu-ously to realize is that nations cannot can-not be judged by a few chqnce specimens speci-mens or their citizens. They must be judged by the expression of thei; collective col-lective will, made manifest in nours of crisis. Judge Britain by her artlon as a nation during the war, if you will, one month of the war April, 101S and I think no Briton or friend of Britain need be ashamed of his citi-zenrhip citi-zenrhip or his friendship. Now Judge America. "Judge America by her action when she came into the war, her wholehearted whole-hearted and instantaneous adoption oi compulsory military service and, -iven more striking, the voluntary rationing of the use of food and fuel in millions of households and I think no American or fiiend of America need be other lhan pi cud of his citizenship or his friendship. "Thesr; are the great signs of the pure gold of unselfish idealism iu national na-tional souls. and long after the hysterical hys-terical shouting and exaggerations have parsed away, long after the lalse generalizations have been exposed and theu- falseness recognized, tho ulti-! ulti-! rar.le essential verily, the ca,paci'y to J forget ielf in the service of a common I ideal, will bind our nations in a yoke j of service to mankind."' I rtn |