The resolution of thanks passed by the American lawyers on
the concluding day of their official visit to London was a remarkable one. Among other things it said, "If either nation (Britain or the United States) should go down, the other cannot survive ; inexorable fate binds us indissolubly in a common cause of self defence." Great imagination was displayed by the .hosts in planning the London programme, including such events as the formal welcome in Westminster Hall, with its common memories dating back to the times of William Rufus, by the British and Canadian Bars ; the reception at the Guildhall, the banquets at the various Inns of Court ; the Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, and finally the visit to Sulgrave Manor, where Sir Charles Wakefield and the Sulgrave Institution did honour to our visitors. As Mr. Charles E. Hughes, the president of the American Bar Association, said, " Every member was taking away with him an abiding memory of venerable institutions, of inex- haustible kindness and new appreciation of a common heritage and common interests." As a tangible souvenir of the occasion we in London shall possess the impressive statue of Sir William Blackstone in the central hall of the Royal Courts of Justice, the generous gift of the American Bar to this country.
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