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"Welcome, Mate; You're Just in Time!"
"I am in the happy position of being, I think, the first British Minister
of the Crown who, speaking on behalf of the people of this
country, can salute the American Nation as comrades in arms. I
am glad; I am proud. I am glad not merely because of the stupendous
resources which this great nation will bring to the succor of the alliance,
but I rejoice as a democrat that the advent of the United States into this
war gives the final stamp and seal to the character of the conflict as a
struggle against military autocracy throughout the world."
—From the Speech of the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd-George at
the American Club in London, April 12, 1917.
