SIGNIFICANT EVENT

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 84, 5 October 1929, Page 9

SIGNIFICANT EVENT

IMPORTANCE OF VISIT REPRESENTATIVE VIEWS Australian Press Association. WASHINGTON, 3rd October. On the eve of Mr. MaeDonald's arrival there is throughout America the keenest sense of the unusual significance of his visit. A university professor, addressing a meeting, said: "A profound revolution is being accomplished in the doctrines and deeds which govern international affairs." A prominent official, commenting on the e.yent, says: "If there is an AngloAmoriean rapprochement to assure the world's pence, what need is there for defensive economic barriers between the English-speaking countries?" The Foreign Policy Association, which is one of the most prominent groups entertaining Mr. Mao Donald, has issued.a precis explaining the import of Mr. Mac Donald's mission, and observes: "It does not mean an AngloAmerican alliance, but a world alliance for peace." A noted journalist, in the course of an article, says: "To appreciate the dramatic import of this unprecedented meeting of the leading executive representatives of the two nations, one must grasp the fact that the" two Commonwealths they ropresent hold a population of 640 million people, which is a, vast part of the world's inhabitants." HOOVER AND MACDONALD. There is also a keen recognition of the personalities of the two men, and everywhere it is sfepsasad that the'