BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 6 August 1925, Page 6

BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

COMMUNITY OF XXTEftESTS.

PLAYING THE GAME

"You see the real difficult thing for mc to do is to bring myself to the state of mind of believing that I am addressing the people of another country," was the statement of Mr. Walter Boyle, United States Consul, when addressing members of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. . "To my eyes," the speaker continued, "you are so much like an assemblage of representative, American business men, that instead of addressing you as our cousins as so many are wont to do, or as our blood brothers, which seems to mc a more fitting term, I really feel that I should get down the old flag, wave it around several times and ask for three rousing cheers. "But here 1 would be making an error, for I needs must stop and remember that though your appearance, your tongue, your Ideals, and many other things are such that I am wont to confound you with an American audience, that after all you love another flag, even as we love burs, that yott respect us for the love of our flag, as we respect you for the love of your flag, and that when you sing God Save the King, it awakens within your heart of hearts a uniting responsive chord that bring you to an understanding of the bigger things in life, even as we Americans respond to the playing of the Star Spangled Banner." .. Touching the commercial issue in its broadest sense, the Consul said, the two «reat commercial powers of the world were of Anglo-Saxon origin. And thus it may be said," he proceeded, "that one of the greatest ties between the two great branches of the AngloSaxon family is that we are business men, that we understand the business ffame, that we know to play it fair, that we can see the other fellow's point of view, and we always have our eyes upon the ball, and are ever working to make a «-oal for ourselves; we do not believe in foul tackles and will have none of him who does. "And while we are speaking of the fair deal in business, it is well that ~e remember that England, in addition to being the Mother of our common countries! was also the mother of free trade, and though time and time again country after country haß rejected free trade as not being suited to its own «conomic needs, we must all admit that free trade had as its inspiration that spirit of fair play in business that has marked the history of the Anglo-Saxon. In conclusion, he axpressed confidently the view -that the two great nations were much closer than before the war and the future would still further harmonise their respective ideals.-