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all over the State, and every answer expressed willingness to go with-
out flour entirely, if need be. So Texas, without being requested,
without its coming in the shape of a demand, voluntarily went upon a
wheatless basis from April 15th until June ɪst, with the result that a
definite, positive shipment of ninety thousand barrels of flour went for-
ward to the Allies in addition to what would have been sent otherwise.
And I want to tell you that during that time there was no grumbling.
Our people were glad to do this. And they found great pleasure and
great satisfaction in contributing that much towards winning the war.
Dr. Shipley: I begin on behalf of the British Mission with a word of
thanks to your university, your State, your town, and the Chamber of
Commerce for the extremely kind and hospitable way in which we have
been received.
We are always called the British Educational Mission, but the only
instruction we got from our government, before we left on a foggy
morning, not unattended by U-boats, was that we were not to educate
in any way. “We send you out there to learn”—that is what they told
us, and we are learning an awful lot. We have been in this country
hardly six weeks. We have traveled almost six thousand miles. We
have visited at least sixty universities or colleges, and we had until this
lunch hour a rooted conviction in our minds that the inhabitants of the
United States were entirely professors. I am happy in this midday to
redress that very obvious error, which is one of the misfortunes we
have had.
Our business is to try to bring together, or rather keep together,
these two great English-speaking nationalities, because it is the con-
viction of the wiser people on our side that if our country and your
country can behave in times of peace as they have behaved in times
of war, there will be no more war. The best means that we can think
of is to do this through the young men and the young women, because
after all they will be the future rulers and citizens of these two Anglo-
Saxon races. We want to bring more American students to England.
We want especially, and that is especially my own want, to bring more
British students over here. They want to come. There is a financial
difficulty which we shall have to get out of more or less. At the
present moment on our side the Rhodes trustees are spending one hun-
dred and fifty thousand dollars a year in bringing young Americans over
to our country. We want now to have a westward flow, and somehow
or other we have got to finance that, but I have every belief that we
shall get over that difficulty. One practical step we could take at
once, and that is to let the young officer, still attached to his regiment,