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A VIEW OF JAFFA, THE ANCIENT PORT OF PALESTINE WHICH WAS USED AS A BASE 

 OF OPERATIONS IN THE BRITISH ADVANCE UPON JERUSALEM 



In the time of Solomon, Jaffa was the port of Jerusalem, and it was here that the cedar 

 from Lebanon was landed for the construction of the Temple. In the middle ages the sea- 

 port figured in many of the crusades. Napoleon captured it in 1799, and now it has helped 

 the Twentieth Century Crusaders of Britain to deliver the Holy Land from the Hun and the 

 Turk (see also pages 325-344). 



I should like again to express my ad- 

 miration of the magnificent work which 

 you of the United States are doing. If 

 we in Canada can but keep pace with you, 

 we shall be satisfied. We shall at least try. 



My last word is a vision which I and 

 other Canadians note with joy is already 

 in the first stages of realization. I see 

 the United States and the .British Em- 



pire, the two great branches of the Eng- 

 lish-speaking world, going down through 

 the centuries arm in arm, cooperating as 

 brothers, each helping the other, each 

 strengthening the other, and unitedly 

 blessing the world and making it safe for 

 democracy. The Germans have suc- 

 ceeded in unifying the Anglo-Saxon 

 world. 



