U.S. RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN Mr Dulles Speaks On “Exchanges”

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28413, 21 October 1957, Page 11

U.S. RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN Mr Dulles Speaks On “Exchanges”

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 19. The Secretary of Slate, Mr John Foster Dulles, called last night I for “increasing exenange and contacts” between the United States and Great Britain to “cope successfully with the new problems of the future.”

Toasting the Queen at a dinner he gave in her honour, Mr Dulles said that such close associations would serve all those “who having freedom will preserve it, who not having freedom as yet would achieve it, and who having lost freedom would retrieve it.”

Mr Dulles predicted that the Queen’s visit to the united States would lead “to our realising more fully the great potentials which we jointly possess.” New Efforts

“There exists herein between us, between the United Kingdom and the United States, a solid foundation upon which to mount new efforts,” he saia

Mr Dulles said that both the United States and Britain have “cherished ties” w’ith other countries. They would not be endangered by a doser BritishAmerican alliance, but instead “would enable us better to serve a common cause.”

Mr Dulles said the Queen’? visit reminded Americans of “the English heritage which we have between the years so largely shared, the language, the literature, the. law, the love of individual freedom, of sport, of adventure, and the sea.”

“Now, this reminder is not merely pleasant, which it surely is, it is more than that,” he said. "It is extremely useful.” “It tells us that the United Kingdom and the United States have much in '!ommon> much more than the fact that both oui names begin with the word united "We have so much substance in common that it <hows that we could do more in common.” Toast to President The Queen, in hei speech proposing the toast of President Eisenhower, said thal “unfettered exchanges between men of ideas are essential to the maintenance of freedom and are also one o* the greatest boons that real freedom has to offer. I hope that the practice of free ano friendly cooperation will never cease.” “I do not believe that there is any field of human activity in which exchanges ani contacts between leading men of our countries have not at one time or another played a major role in the building of our civilisation.” said the Queen.

There were 112 guests at the banquet in the Hall of the Americas in -the Pan American union headquarters in Washington. w