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Show VISCOUNT HALDANE PRAISES AMERICA I i The Thanksgiving dinner of the American society in London was noteworthy note-worthy because of the pronouncement of the British government's indorsement indorse-ment of the Monroe doctrine by Viscount Vis-count Haldane, lord high chancellor. :'I recently made a visit to the United Uni-ted States," Lord Haldane said, "and came back not only with a vivid recollection rec-ollection of the cordial welcome I received, re-ceived, but with a deep sense of the high ideals the British and American nations held in common the high ideals of citizenship of the two countries. coun-tries. "Before he became president, Wood-row Wood-row Wilson was a thinking man and a moralist. In studying his career I cannot fail to be impressed by his detached de-tached character, and find th.it he has not ceased to be a thinker and a moralist mor-alist because he has become the holder hold-er of a great office. We see in him the aspirations and ideals expressed of his nation to the world. It is not his ex- I ? . A I - v "f " j , k. y ' ' i I pressed declaration that the policy of the United States is not one of conquest con-quest and annexation; but the world looks to the United States, with its .enormous position and possessions, to carry on its traditions without addisA ko. its pc jessiona." |