HOPE FOR MANKIND

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 82, 31 December 1926, Page 9

HOPE FOR MANKIND

IF BRITAIN AND AMERICA WORK TOGETHER MR. BRUCE PAINTS GLOOMY PICTURE OF CONDITIONS IN EUROPE THE SILVER LINING TO THE DARK CLOUDS In an address to a gathering of the English-speaking Union, in New York, Mr. Bruce, the Prime Minister of Australia, declared that if Britain and America would work together there was hope for mankind. If they did not, he added, nothing mankind could devise could possibly succeed. Mr. Bruce painted a gloomy picture of after-war conditions in Europe, but said there was a silver lining to the dark clouds overhanging civilisation, and that was a better understanding between the English-speaking races. By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.

New York, December 29. Tn his first public utterance in the United States, the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. 8. M. Bruce, chose as the keynote the urgent necessity for the closest co-operation between the United States and the British Empire. Addressing an afternoon gathering of the English-speaking Union, he said: “If Britain and America will work together there is hope for mankind If they don’t nothing mankind can devise will possiblv succeed.” Reviewing after-war condition in Europe, Mr. Bruce painted a gloomy picture. He told his audience that, despite the sacrifices of the war, he felt that the great ideals for which they fought had so far shown little sign of realisation. There was, however, a silver lining to the dark clouds overhanging civilisation, and that was a better understanding between the English-speaking races and the United States. MISCONCEPTION OF BRITISH EMPIRE. Mr. Bruce urged Americans to rid their minds of the conception of an old, encrusted Empire, founded upon conquest, and oppression and antagonistic democratic progress, and substitute the picture of a Commonwealth of free nations animated by the same spirit which permeated the United States, only more so. Mr. Bruce proceeded to detail the great efforts made bv Britain in the past few vears to secure improved relations with the United States. Britain was the first to pav her debt, the first -to accept an invitation to a Disarmament Conference Britain even

gladlv accented the abolition of the three-mile limit. Tn this spirit of cooperation the world's two greatest nations should work together to restore sanity in the rest of the world. A STRENUOUS DAY FOR MR. BRUCE (Rec. December 30, 5.5 p.m.) New York. December 29. Mr. Bruce spent a strenuous day, beginning with a luncheon, attended by the most prominent financiers and industrialists. He attended the Eng-lish-speaking Union reception, at which he made a lengthy address concerning the necessity for the continuance of Anglo-American friendship for the peace of the world, and concluded with a dinner given by the Pilgrims’ Society, at which he also spoke in similar tenor. The bankers’ luncheon was private, but it is understood Mr.. Bruce’s address there was substantiallv. concerning the same subject as his address before the bankers in England, and contained, a correction of an erroneous statement set bv an American journalist to a financial journal in New York, intimating that English financiers were hesitating to lend money to an Australian Labour Government. The guests at the luncheon included Mr. Otto Kuhn, of the Kuhn-Loeb Company. Mr Thomas Lamok. of the J P. Morgan Company, and Mr. Elbert Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation.