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while they would, of course, be gladly welcomed, I do not think that
will meet a serious condition; I do not think that will carry out the
object of this Mission, unless it is on a much larger scale than anything
that is at all to be expected at present. I think what we must do is,
we must try to get over a large number of junior students, junior
teachers, junior graduate students, or even undergraduate students—
your senior students, you call them. To do that is really a financial
question. I think many of our boys in England and Ireland would gladly
come over here for a year’s experience in your colleges, if their expenses
would be paid ; and, similarly, ɪ am sure that many Americans would
like to go over and see those old English institutions, if their expenses
were paid. So it becomes, like most other things in this world, a financial
question. Perhaps the best method of solving this financial difficulty
would be the institution of memorial fellowships; that is, fellowships
or scholarships founded in memory of some one who had fallen in this
disastrous war. I believe that on my side of the Atlantic many men
will be found who will be willing to come forward and found such
scholarships. Thereby they will really be promoting the object for
which the sacrifice was made, and they will be perpetuating the name
of the fallen one. I think those two reasons alone ought to be sufficient.
I may tell you that there are thousands of people in Great Britain
who have lost everything they valued in the world by this war. I do
not think you can possibly have realized it to the full. They have lost
everything they had. There are childless old couples all over the country,
who have been left without children. I can assure you they are num-
bered by the thousand. I know an Irish family who had one son, who
was in one of the engineering corps, and he was killed. I think people
in that position would very gladly come forward and found memorial
scholarships, which would be in the nature of traveling prizes. The
boy who won the prize would of necessity spend a year in the States or
in Canada, or some other country. You, if you had similar scholar-
ships, could send your boys to England, or to France, or some other
country. Of course, you see the underlying idea of the whole thing.
The underlying idea is plain enough. It is that you can never have
any sure guaranty of peace except on the good understanding of the
nations one with another, and the only sure way to bring about that
good understanding is, not by making speeches in the House of Com-
mons. That does not do it. It is by bringing about personal friendships
between young men in the days of their youth. If you have sufficient,
then you have a democratic basis of peace, and there is no other basis
of peace which is worth anything, in my opinion, as history will show.
So, gentlemen, I hope that something will be done there.

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