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sacrifice, and in a time of confusion we have kept our heads.
I have left behind me in the Old World an atmosphere of strain
and turmoil, an anxious and critical situation for all men of
peace and goodwill. Of these dangers, here in Canada, you
cannot be insensible, both as a part of the British Empire and as
a great world State, for today all the peoples of the earth are
intimately bound together. Yet, crossing
the Atlantic, I feel that I have entered into
a calmer world. But it is still a difficult world. When I left
England it was in a gale, and the stormy weather did not cease
until we were close on the Canadian shores. There the wind fell
but it was replaced by a certain amount of fog.
Perhaps that is a parable of our situation today. Canada
is out of the hurricane area, but the visibility is still not
good, and the future is a little misty. She has still before her
intricate and incalculable problems which, in their settlement,
will need all her sagacity and resolution. But far greater than
any difficulties that may confront her are her possibilities and
powers. She has immense assets and of these the chief, now as
ever, is the spirit of her people.

Mr. Prime Minister, it will be my duty to watch at close
quarters, with profound interest and sympathy, the steps of this
country's advance to security and prosperity and that leading position among the nations which is her
due. I shall be proud indeed if, at the end of my sojourn here,
I can think that I have contributed my mite of effort to the fulfilment
of Canada's destiny.

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