FULL HARMONY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 124, 29 May 1925, Page 7

FULL HARMONY

rANGLO - AMERICAN RELATIONS

BAD OLD HABIT LOST

WELCOME TO NEW AMBASSADOR.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIOH—tOPYEIQHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

' (Received 29th May, 11 a.m.) ' LONDON, 28th May.! There was a distinguished company, presided over by the Earl of Birkenhead, at the English-speaking Union's luncheon to welcome the 'new American Ambassador, Mr. A. B. Houghton. Proposing Mr. Houghton's health, Lord Birkenhead said he had com* at a moment when Anglo-American relations, diplomatic, social, and political; Were never more harmonious. The process .of "twisting the Lion's tail,", once common in the United States, appealed" now to belong to remote history. He rejoiced that memories of the Great War still prevailed to remind British and' Americans and the worn world that in the last resort their ideals- of civilisation and humanity were identical; • - -

Mr. Houghton, in reply, paid a tribute to the work of. the English-speak-ing Union in strengthening the understanding of their peoples, on which the happiness, security, and peace of the world largely depended.