MODEL SHORT SPEECHES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 93, 12 February 1947, Page 7

MODEL SHORT SPEECHES

AMERICAN AMBASSADOR * "I LIKE ART; THIS IS IT" » Since his arrival in Australia Mr Robert Butler, United States Ambassador, has established reputation for very brief speeches. Mr Butler opened a recent art exhibition by saying: "I like art; this is it." At"a reception given at the Town Hall to.Mr Butler and his wife Mr Butler spoke for less than a minute. He said: "I am impressed by, the significance of this occasion, and I am sure you will all-agree that there are many reasons for the existence of a firm and lus.ty friendship between U.S.A. and Australia, based on mutual admiration and goodwill. Surely there is a basis for such a relationship in a world now at peace."

Cr. Connelley, Lord Mayor, remarked: "You have just heard an object lesson in speechmaking for all Australian speakers." Mr Butler showed plenty of evidence of personality and drive when he gave his first Press interview in Melbourne.

Mr Butler, who was associated with wartime shipbuilding, said he had never had any strikes of men under his control. His recipe was: "Sit around a. table with the men while it's still only a rumour. Strikes are like sores—they fester if not treated."

- Commenting on U.S. foreign policy, Mr Butler said Australia need have not fear about the Congressional election having any effect on present policy. The present situation had no parallel with that existing after the 1918 election, when a Republican Congress thwarted the international programme of President Woodrow Wilson. Mr. Butler added that the United States believed that the onlv permanent way better living standards could be achieved throughout the world was by increasing production. "People have to have enough good

tools and resources to work with, and they have to know how to use them,".he said. "Expansion of trade is the key to economic development."

It is Mr Butler's aim to be the best-informed American on Australia when he gets back to. his own country, and, according to Brigadier E. B. Sebree, Military Attache, he is working to a "tight schedule."