NEW WORLD ORDER

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24743, 7 December 1945, Page 6

NEW WORLD ORDER

CANADA'S IMPORTANT PART

FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH AMERICA "It is not the least part of the . strength which Canada contributes to the British Commonwealth and Empire that she is able to act as the linchpin between Great Britain and the United States, and to interpret the one of us to the other," said Sir Patrick Duff, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, when giving his impressions of Canada in an address last evening, at the annual Christmas party of the Canterbury Travel Club; "Now that an international order is developing in. which, the American continent and hemisphere are pledged to play a pivotal part, Canada's, importance in this role will remain, in peace as in war, of incalculable importance." Sir Patrick Puff emphasised Canada's ■nearness to.the>United States, and said that across the invisible border flowed American newspapers, American magazines, American broadcasting, and American films, with all the impalpable but persistent influences that all these entailed. One quarter of Canada's manufactured products were made in American-owned factories in Canada. American the veins of Canadian industry, .Canadian trade unions were affiliated with Americans -unions, Canadian mining, agriculture and industry had adopted American techniques and largely employed American machinery. Canadian consumers had much the same tastes as American consumers. Also there was. a large dependence of Canadian trade on the United States both for imports and exports. "At many points in Canadian history fear of absorption into the American people has been a powerful.factor and there were, in fact, several American invasions iri her early history," said Sir..Patrick-Duff. "Those times have- passed. No two peoples have such intimate and friendly relations. But from all these factors it results that a main, preoccupation in Can•i?".,? wst be her relations . with the United States. "Her relations with Great Britain, from tradition, sentiment, power and S^tft^^l?^ l - Hence'it follows that her policy is concerned (.primarily with those "two powers -Friendly relations hot only with.Brit- £ lso , with the United States, gal b reSt e ions?° ne 0f Canadia "