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entertainment of both sets of visitors. Lord 

 Lyveden, on behalf of "the German visits 

 organising Committee," invited him to take the 

 chair at a dinner to the burgomasters, styled 

 the Anglo-German Friendship Banquet, at which 

 some three hundred were present, and a day or 

 two later he escorted the visitors to be presented 

 to the King at Buckingham Palace. " The 

 King," Lord Avebury writes, " shook hands with 

 them, and made them a very nice little speech. 

 Then to luncheon at the Mansion House — about 

 a hundred and fifty present." 



The visit of the editors was in the latter end 

 of May. Lord Avebury writes on the 21st : 

 " About 50 German editors are over, I took 

 them to the Lord Chancellor, and then to Haldane 

 on the House of Commons terrace, and in the 

 evening took the chair at the dinner. There 

 were about 300. The Lord Chancellor and Bryce 

 made the principal speeches on our side. H. 

 Spender also was good. Dr. Barth made an 

 excellent one from theirs." 



Three days later he " took the German editors 

 over the Natural History Museum," and the day 

 following " to Windsor. They laid a wreath on 

 the Queen's tomb. Luncheon was in the Orangery. 

 It was a fine day, and they all enjoyed it very 

 much — or seemed to do so." The day following, 

 the " Lord Mayor gave them a sumptuous 

 luncheon at the Mansion House " — which, we 

 may hope, for the sake of the amity of nations, 

 they also enjoyed very much, though Lord 

 Avebury does not tell us so. 



The Duke of Argyll wrote to him strongly 



