BRITISH MESSAGES TO AMERICA.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 83, 10 April 1917, Page 7

BRITISH MESSAGES TO AMERICA.

C!ONGRATULATTONS ON HER, ENTRY.

LONDON, April 7. The Press". Bureau states that his JUajesty the King has telegraphed to President Wilson on behalf of the SCmpire offering heartfelt congratulations on the entry of America ia the war for the great ideals indicated in • liis speech in Congress. .His Majesty adds that the moral and material re- \ suits of the national declaration will j be incalculable to civilisation. j The Prime Minister has received an 1 American press representative and ; dictated on behalf of the War Cabi- 1 jiefe a message to the American people. | It begins by stating that America at one bound has become a World „ Power in the sense she never was beiore. h;be waited .until she found a <'iiuse worthy of her tradition, and The American' people held back until aully convinced that the fight was not a- sordid scrimmage for power or ; possession, but an unselfish struggle. lo overthrow a sinister . conspiracy j against human liberty and human i right. Once that conviction reach- * ed the great republic, the West leapt into the arena. She stands now side by side with the European democracies who, bruised and bleeding iU;er nearly three years' grim conflict, are still fighting the most savage foe that ever menaced the freedom of, tho world. i ' 'The glowing phrases of the President's noble deliverance will il- ■ lumine the horizon and make clearer ' than ever the goal we are striving to reach. His words represent the faith which inspires and sustains our people in tie tremendous sacrifices they have w :!<? and are still making.; They a*" '.■> believe that the unity and peaoo oj l.nkind can only rest upon. <lemoera a - upon the right of those who sub:.nt -o authority to have a voice in their own government upon respect for the rights and liberties of nations both great and small., and upon the universal dominion of public right to all these. "Prussian military autocracy is our implacable foe. The.' Imperial War Cabinet, representative of all the peoples r.ud nations of the 'British jimpire, wish me on their behalf to recognise the chivalry and courage which calls the people of the United States to dedicate the whole of their resource" to the service of the greatest cause, that ever engaged human ondeavoiv" Mr.A qtiith has addressed a message to ;he American people. He sa y g: —"There is not a man among us who doe5? not' breathe more freely now he know 3 that ' the whole Englishspeaking people are to fight as comrades side by side in the most momentous struggle, in history. Tho people of the United States have been'forced, as the. United Kingdom was forced, into a Struggle which in neither rase is our own. They, as we, hav^ realised that the choice lay between peace- with humiliation or war with honor. There is no middle course possible. The Americans nre now dedicating their lives and fortune? to this great purpose, conaseious that thej are obeying one of

! those suiwerrto calls which come rareily in hi;;t';".v, but when it comes sounds in ii-e ears of a community of ' freemen wxch it note of imperious [ command."