AMERICA AND BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1924, Page 8

AMERICA AND BRITAIN

BOUND. BY COMMON TIES.

The relations • between Britain. and America were referred to by the Prime Minister at the New Zealand Club luncheon to-day. Mr. Massey said he regretted that Britain and America had not come closer together, but the feeling between the two countries was better, and suspicions on the part of the Americans, he thought, were pretty well gone, as a result of the Washington Treaty. He believed that President Coolidge would make good, and ii.-.. he-was. not mistaken, he was a good friend of ours. (Applause.) President Coolidge was not a noisy man, but calm and collected. One thing that struck him, Mr. Massey said, was that every name on the Declaration of Independence (which he saw)/was British. < (Applause.) „ "Klerel you are," said Mr. ,Massey. ■Two great nations, but one a little greater than the other perhaps!" (Laughter). " 'Manasseh-also shall be a great name, but Ephraim Bhall be greater than he,'" quoted. Mr. Massey. The Anglo-Saxon element in America was predominant, said the Prime Minister in conclusion, and the two great peoples of America' and Britain were bound'together'by common ties of blood and language. : ■. : ■ \