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INTRODUCTION OF H.G. WELLS
BUSHNELL MEMORIAL
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
December 2, 1940
MISS LEE YA-CHING

Mt. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen.
[[strikethrough]] I have been crowned with glory by the people of Hartford today. First they let me speak over the radio, then a delicious luncheon was given in my honor, and now I am here [[/strikethrough]] to introduce to you the speaker of the evening. [[strikethrough]] This is really too much for a little girl. I am afraid that before the eveing is over you people might yet give me the key to the city. [[/strikethrough]] [[???]]

Before I do that however I would like, [[strikethrough]] however [[/strikethrough]], to take this opportunity to thank you [[strikethrough]] all in public [[/strikethrough]] on behalf of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. I'd like particularly to thank the [[strikethrough]] officers of Bushnell Memorial [[/strikethrough]] Hartford Committee [[strikethrough]] of the American [[/strikethrough]] and especially Mr. Robert Drew-Bear, for without their kind sponsorship this meeting would not have been possible. To you, ladies and gentlemen of the audience, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for your [[strikethrough]] participation in [[/strikethrough]] presence tonight [[strikethrough]] 's meeting. [[/strikethrough]]

This is indeed a glorious meeting. An Englishman speaking on an American platform for the benefit of the Chinese victims of war. I think it is fitting and proper for Mr. Wells to have chosen for the subject of his address tonight "The Immediate Future of Mankind," for I can safely say that in this day and age, the welfare of the people of the United States and that of the people of Great Britain and of China should have a very close bearing on the immediate future of mankind.

It has been increasingly realized that the people of the world belong to what may be termed a happy family. That which happens to one member of this family must necessarily affect the other members. From the Manchurian invasion in 1931 to the fall of France in 1940, the sequence of events and their development have been so linked together that it does not admit any other interpretation. Those who are standing together on the front of freedom and democracy must stick together in order to win out in the gigantic world upheaval.  

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