The idea of having a number of distinguished Americans come to England and tell the British public about the United States and especially about the American preparations for war, was one that now occupied his thoughts.

In June, 1917, he wrote his old friend Dr.Wallace Buttrick, extending an invitation to visit Great Britain as a guest of the British Government.
Dr.Buttrick made a great success; his speeches drew large crowds and proved a source of inspiration to the British masses.

So successful were they, indeed, that the British Government desired that other Americans of similar type should come and spread the message.

In November, therefore, Dr.Buttrick returned to the United States for the purpose of organizing such a committee.

Among the eminent Americans whom he persuaded to give several months of their time to this work of heartening our British allies were Mr.George E.Vincent, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, Mr.Harry Pratt Judson, President of Chicago University, Mr.Charles H.Van Hise, President of the University of Wisconsin, Mr.Edwin A.Alderman, President of the University of Virginia, Mr.Harry Emerson Fosdick, and Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts.