Excerpt from Addresses at the Several Receptions in Honor of the Royal Italian War Commission in New York, June 21-23, 1917 Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies, and Gen tlemen: This is an exceptional gathering of a thousand merchants and men of affairs of New York. You have come in the midst of a busy day to bid welcome to this distinguished company of representatives of the Government and the people of Italy, and to pledge once more, publicly and with heartiness, the fullest possible support and cooperation of our people in this great enterprise which we have joined to gether to undertake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.