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Address of Welcome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Henry Grattan Doyle*
Affiliation:
The George Washington University

Extract

Herzlich Willkommen! Soyez les bienvenus! Siate ben venuti, tutti! Boas vindas! Dobro pozhalovat'! Céad mile fáilte! jEstán ustedes en su casa! [Felices Pascuas y Próspera Año Nuevo! (No, that's for Christmas cards.) You see, I can espeak the English too! Also! So I shall add, translating one of these greetings, “A hundred thousand welcomes!” Welcome to the city described by Esquire as “Everybody's Other Home Town,” and by our local Board of Trade as “Beautiful, Exciting Washington!”

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Other
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1957

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References

page 85 * On January 8, 1957 Melville Bell Grosvenor became President of the Society and Editor of the National Geographic.