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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.''