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Excerpt from Address of Honorable John Barrett, Director General of Pan American and Former United States Minister to Argentina, Colombia and Panama Before the Illinois State Bar Association: February 19, 1916
Mr. John barrett: Mr. President, Members of the Illinois statebar Association, and Guests. I hope, that I have shown my appreciation of the honor which you have done me in inviting me to speak tonight, by coming at a time when it is most difficult, as you may readily understand, to get away from Washington, and by the fact that this is one of only four or five invitations which I have accepted out of nearly two hundred received for this and the next month. The interest throughout the country is now so great in all phases of the effects and in?uences of the European war that it would seem as if every variety of organization, com mercial, social, awe and scientific as well as legal, were anxious to know more about what might be called the present day Pan Aineric'anism and the status of the Monroe Doctrine as affected by the European war: Recognizing the notable Character Of'this organization, ' I accepted the invitation which Was so earnestly. Tendered through your amiable, diplomatic and persistent Presi dent! Ories of good.) And I am very glad that his amiability, his diplomacy and his persistency won out in my case, for I have looked over this audience, I have been told who the majority of you are, and I feel as if I were being really honored by your pres ence here this evening. I recognize, however, that the honor is not to me personally, but to the organization with (which I am connected, and to. The cause in which I am engaged. I can say' this, however, that i do a real satisfaction in speak.
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