FUSION URGED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 81, 5 April 1941, Page 8

FUSION URGED.

U.S. AND BRITAIN. . "THE WAY OUT OF CHAOS." (By Air) SAN FRANXISCO. March 16 A fusion of the British F.mpire and the American Empire—he called it that — whs suggested as a way out of the pre- ! -ent world chnos In- Mr. William Stix I Was-ernuin, Philadelphia financier and !ii).builder, in an address before the JTuwn Hall in California. He raid that 'there were some indication- that this i .-olution > s in develo]jment. 1 Mr. Wnsepininn's prediction astonished ni'siilici- of iiu- public di- cu--ions group jwlm hail never heard a -peaker out--pukiMily nilvocntp joint Brit i-h- American ' iniperiali-m. Mr. \V:i--(Tninn «poke of a ! situ.i'iimi in which theie Wuuld be no I balance of power in KuiopP: in which ! the wm Id x>. .li l<l be divided lift v-fjft v I between I* ■ 11. ii i ■ and the l'nitc.l State- 1 . ' The IMiiladclphian ba-.-d hi- belief ou the simple propo-it ion thm the |ire-eiit wm Id < li;io- was line to the la-t war. j which up-et the free enterprise and free (trade >v-teni of the world and prevented international investment: the remedy, thus, i- for the I'uited State- to join Britain in defeatinj; 'ieiinany and then to -et up a Joint world imperialism in which the old -latus quo would be returned in the form of joint Americani Hritish na\al policing of the ?eas, a -table world currency and lowering of tarilF biii'i'iiM'x. with an eye. however, on ailju-i meiit to prevent eoniitries with -t.HMitioii waaes from dumping iroods ..n nation- with highpr economic level-." He i eject- the idea of isolationism be-i.iii-e. he hold-, this country could not continue with a free enterprise system in a world dominated by the totalitarian nations. He warned that any attempt to id,, that would re-ult in up-ets which [would briiifj ruin and then smne kind of Stat(> Sociali-m to this country. Tims I the de-tinv of thi- country i< tied up i witli that of the !!:iti-h. a fact con firmed I by pM.-ii.ue ~f the Lease-in-Lend Bill. ■Whether we like it or not. we are on ! the io.nl to world imperialism." said the -pi-aker. ■ I'lie luited states in return ' for ii- aid to Britain will be enabled to I demand e<|Ual accc-- to world market*. . <>{ which Latin America and China are I the mo-t important. Appeasement in its !\aiioiis forms cannot appeal to Hitler. ; because he calls the British and Anieriiaii way a 'huckster civili-atioii.' that i« ! a 11 adinir civilisat ion."