Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1929. GENERAL DAWES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 201, 11 June 1929, Page 4

Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1929. GENERAL DAWES.

General Dawes, who lias left for London to assume .the position of United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James, isi one of the best, known and most loved citizens of his country. Apart fioin his recent occupancy of the Vice-Presidency, under Mr Cdol-idg-e, he has had a long- career in the service of the State as an expert adviser on matters of finance and as a soldier in France during the war, and in private life as lawyer, engineer, financier, and philanthropist. In Europe/ his name is for ever linked with the plan for the settlement of German Reparations which bears his name. He himself would perhaps be one of the first to disclaim any credit for the drafting of that scheme, yet his was the motive power that made it a practical policy for the nations of Europe. Born in the small town of Marietta, in the State of Ohio, and having lived the "Teater part of his life beyond the Great Lakes, General Dawes is above all things a Westerner. His plain and direct methods of speech, his forcible way of saying outright what he means and thinks, his hatred of shams, and his passion for breaking down unmeaning obstacles are all typical of the people of the West, and greatly characterised his work at Washington. General Dawes’s four years as Vice-Presi-dent, where his main duties were to preside over the sessions of the Senate, brought him into close contact with statesmen and diplomatists. General Dawes’s attitude toward Britain and his views of the relations between Great Britain and America may be best judged from his own words in a letter which he wrote to “The Times,” in 1921. “If they did not know it before,” he said, “Americans and Englishmen learned in France that they could work together; that they could trust each other, and that they worked in the same way to the same end. It is not a ques-i tion of whether an American is pro-British or anti-British, or whether a Britisher is pro-Ameri-can or anti-American. It is a question of whether there is to he peace and order and progress in the world. If we pull together there will be; if we hold apart and wrangle and are jealous of each other there will not he. With unity of understanding between the two great Englishspeaking peoples the foundation of the civilisation of the world will remain unshaken.”