BRITISH EMPIRE AND U.S.

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22083, 4 May 1937, Page 5

BRITISH EMPIRE AND U.S.

MOVEMENT TO MAINTAIN WORLD PEACE GREAT ADVANCES CLAIMED IN AUSTRALIA [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, May 3. If the British Empire and the United States were to form an alliance against war, they would be able to prevent it for the next' 50 years, according to Brigadier-General H. W. Lloyd, who arrived from Sydney by the Monterey. A distinguished soldier and now a member of the New, South _ Wales Legislative Assembly, BrigadierGeneral Lloyd has come to New Zealand as the representative of a movement known as British-American Cooperation, which aims at bringing the two countries together in the interests of world peace. Brigadier-General Lloyd said that the movement had taken an extraordinarily active form in Australia, and it had made people realise that both New Zealand and Australia were very vulnerable in the case of complications in Europe. There was a gradual realisation, both in the United States and Great Britain and, peculiarly enough, last of all in Australia*, chat although people talked about the horrors of war. it was in the hands of the English-speaking nations to prevent it. “If the United States and Great Britain and her Dominions form an alliance against , war, they can prevent it for the next 50 years,” said Brigadier-General Lloyd. “It is no use talking against war; it is in their hands to keep peace and liberty for civilisation. "The movement started rather quietly in Australia but has become

electric in its effect." added BrigadierGeneral Lloyd. "Even America, in the most unexpected manner, has realised that -it is the only solution of the most difficult problem the wor.ld has had to face since 1918." Brigadier-General Lloyd said the chairman of the movement was Sir Henry Braddon, M.L.C., and its aims had the support of the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr J. A. Lyons), and the Premiers of every state in Australia. The main work of the movement consisted of publicity and getting active organisations to realise the value of co-operation between Britain and America. The Prime Minister of New Zealand (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) had been very quick to realise just what the movement meant to the Dominion and had been possibly one of the- most active workers in his efforts to bring about an alliance to preserve peace in the Pacific for many years to come. Brigadier-General Lloyd, who las been a member of the Legislative Assembly since 1929, served at Gallipoli and in France and Belgium with the Royal Australian Field Artillery during the Great War, and was Director of Artillery in 1920. Heentered business in 1925.