ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 16

ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION.

Nothing to equal the English-speaking Unioi* to get the people of England and America together, said Mrs. Rodman at the reception given fo her by the Playgrounds Association, had ever been invented, and she made an appeal to all those present in the Pacific Club room to help this great movement. In Sydney she had landed and gone straight to "a branch of the movement and felt instantly at home. It was the greatest j thing for friendship that she knew and the need of it was strong. When talking to Lord Robert Cecil on the subject he stressed the great need for this cohesion, otherwise he said the world would come under the dominance ot the Latin peoples in the opposition to the AngloSaxon race, with its different ideals. Sir Henry Bradley was the head in Australia. It seemed to the speaker that we had come to a time in the history of the world when it was absolutely necessary for this friendship, and there were branches in many places. She was surprised that none existed in Auckland. When in Sofia, in Bulgaria, she found a branch of forty members, and when talking recently in America to Sir George Paisli, the great economist, he also stressed the importance of this matter. Everything should be done in the country to assist in fostering the goodwill between the peoples round the Pacific. A great conference was beins held next year at Honolulu as a Tan-Pacific Conference and as a safeguard for the rest of the world. This conference was to include a women's conference, to which Dr. Stalev had been invited from Auckland. Women would be there from Java, Japan, China, Xew Zealand, Australia and America. The Hon. George Fowlds also spoke earnestly on the same subject.