Excerpt from The Balfour Visit: How America Received Her Distinguished Guest, And the Significance of the Conferences in the United States in 1917

Great Britain could not have made a happier choice in the man who represented her in the United States immediately after America entered the Great War.

The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, M. P., O. M., bears a name known and revered on both sides of the Atlantic. His coming was hailed as a great event. His dignity, his poise, his tact, his vast experience in diplomatic affairs, his success as a speaker, both as to manner and matter, his age - everything was in his favour. We Americans were well aware of his long and wonderful career in England. We had not forgotten the splendid work he had done as Prime Minister, when, in 1902, he succeeded Lord Salisbury.

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