The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun. THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933. AMERICA IN NEW WATERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 6

The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun.

THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933. AMERICA IN NEW WATERS.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs rztistanee, For the future in the distavce, And the good that ire can dfi.

As Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald says, America has cut lior moorings and advanced into new waters. Her isolation is past, and she has made the cause of European peace and unity her own. "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations," said Washington in his farewell address, "is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none, or a very remote relation." Jefferson thought that the first and fundamental maxim for America was "never to entangle ourselves in the affairs of Europe." This remained a cherished principle, and even after the Great War it continued to be potent. It defeated Woodrow Wilson and kept the United States out of the League of Nations. But it was said at that time that America would be forced sooner or later to interest herself both in Europe and in the League. She did not find it possible to stand aloof from all the League activities, and she assisted in many of its non-political undertakings. Gradually it became apparent to the more thoughtful section of the people of the United States that the prosperity of their own country was bound up with world prosperity. Especially did they feel that the growing burden of armaments was a very serious economic handicap. So America interested herself in the world's navies and their limitation, and gradually she has been drawn by pressure of events into wider participation in world affairs. The United States have been compelled to consider themselves members of the European and world families of nations, and President Roosevelt's appeal to all nations to compose their differences, military and economic, marks the end of an era in the history of his country and of mankind.