2nd image of Page 46_verso. Page contains a newsclipping with photograph describing an address to the Canada's House of Commons by Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Lloyd George Cabinet. Page also includes a clipping with headline "Russia's Women Make Gallant Fighters."
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RT. HON. A.J. BALFOUR'S MESSAGE TO CANADA
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Rt. Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, expressing Britain's thanks to Canada in
his first public speech after arriving in Toronto from Niagara Falls. Fifteen
thousand crowded Queen's Park to hear him from a stand before the Ontario
Parliament Buildings.
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MR. BALFOUR'S SPEECH
SIMPLICITY ITSELF
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Pictures of the Foreign Secretary Make Him Look Old, But His
Face is Ruddy With the Color of Comparative Youth.
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Written Specially for The Evening Journal by Newton Kendall.
The House of Commons was all
decorated up and crowded with fluttering
humanity yesterday afternoon,
when Rt. Hon. A.J. Balfour, Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs in
the Lloyd George Cabinet, dropped
in to deliver an address. People arrived
in croews and fought to get
into the chamber. They expected to
witness a mighty formal occasion,
with a tall, severe individual, redolent
of kings and courts and awesome
assemblies, who would be stiff
and unbending, very imposing and
very severe, but yet would deliver
an oration of sounding periods and
glittering (?)erorations.
"He's A Jolly Good Fellow!"
If there were some who, conceiving
this picture, came to scoff at it,
the proceedings of the afternoon
must have confounded them. For
when a tall, round-shouldered individual
comes into an assembly
wearing the broad, good-natured
smile with which Mr. Balfour
greeted the House and all the galleries
on his first appearance yesterday,
there is only one thing to do. That
is to sing, "He's a Jolly Good Fellow,"
which the crowd did with a
will, and to forget all about the Balfour
of dignities, solemnities and
momentous affairs in appreciation of
the simple unaffectedness of the man.
THE FEATURE OF MR. BALFOUR'S
VISIT TO THE HOUSE
OF COMMONS WAS THE COMPLETE
ABSENCE OF POSE
WHICH CHARACTERIZED HIM.
He displayed no mannerisms. He
seemed to be thoroughly enjoying
himself and to desire to make things
pleasant for everybody. He was
frankly delighted with the warmth
of the greeting he received, and it
was not his fault if everybody who
cheered him did not receive a personal
acknowledgement in the form
of that soul-reflecting smile of his
or a wave of hand or hat.
As Though in Conversation.
Mr. Balfour's address to the House
of Commons was unique. His stle
of speaking is, or was yesterday,
simplicity itself. It was as if he were
conversing quietly with each one of
the audience. He speaks to convince
by argument rather than by rhetoric;
to instruct, not to electrify. This is
not the conventional style in Canada,
where we are used to watching hockey
matches and have little patience
with cricket. And yet, in any form
of delivery, what Mr. Balfour has to
say is worth hearing. It was so yesterday.
For the time, the occasion,
(illegible) and the circumstances, he
said exactly the things which seemed
to come fittingly from a visiting
Old Country (illegible)man.
Democracy.
For instance, he spoke of democracy
as a hard form of government
because it was founded upon
differences of opinion, the party
political system. Yet democracy
was the only form that would satisfy
the highly civilized Western
races. Temporary disagreements,
he said, were healthy signs of
vigorous life. "Whatever difficulties
arise," he urged, "do not lose
your faith."
This seemed a fitting thing to
say to a Parliament somewhat
strikingly divided over the conscription
issue.
Again, he said the German expectation
that the British Empire
would not stand as a unit when war
came was understandable, since the
Mother Country was unable to
raise a corporal's guard of men or
a shilling in taxation in the "great
self-governing Dominions."
Hands At Coat Lapels.
Most of the time when he is
speaking, Mr. Balfour stands erect,
with his hands clasped on the
lapels of his coat. Now and then,
a long arm is stretched out to right
or to left, in quiet emphasis. His
voice is musical and almost youthful
in quality. He is in marked
contrast with Viviani and resembles
Borden in style of address
rather than Laurier. The
impression he creates is not on the
audience but on the individual, and
it is the individual's intellect rather
than his imaginationn Mr. Balfour
seeks to stimulate.
The Ruddy Color of Youth.
Mr. Balfour's published pictures
do him an injustice. The make
him look old. As a matter of fact
he has the ruddy color of a young
man, and his well-rounded features,
so very sad in repose, flash a
message of youthful good nature
when he smiles. He seemed keenly
interested in everything at the
House of Commons yesterday, and
when the proceedings were over he
looked yearningly up to the galleries
just as if he longed to get
away up there to make friends with
the people and have a talk with
each one after everybody else had
gone away.
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RUSSIA'S WOMEN MAKE
GALLANT FIGHTERS
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This young Russian girl is a member
of the Death Battalion of Women
who have fought so desparately on
the Eastern front. The photo was
made at a review in Petrograd before
Premier Kerensky.
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