We already have followed with profound interest your efforts.

Your words here justify our concern in meeting you.

This is perhaps the first time in our history when a woman has been asked to meet those most concerned in even so informal an assemblage as this, at precisely this place." There were gravity and dignity in his words.

The majesty of a government, the dignity of even the simplest and most democratic form of government, the unified needs, the concentrated wish of many millions expressed in the persons of a few,--these are the things which can not fail to impress even the most ignorant and insensitive as deeply as the most extravagant pageantry of the proudest monarchy.

They did not fail to impress Josephine St.
Auban, brilliant and audacious thinker though she was, and used to the pomp of Old World courts.