BOND OF FRIENDSHIP

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 77, 1 April 1933, Page 11

BOND OF FRIENDSHIP

AMERICA AND BRITAIN

MR. MELLOWS FAREWELL

(From "The Post's" Representative,) LONDON, February 23. ! Mr. Andrew W. Mellon, United States Ambassador in. London, whose term, of office ends with, the coming into office.of Mr. Ropsevelt, was entortaincd by the Pilgrims this week. . In acknowledging the toast of his health, Mr. Mellon said that whatever Administration might be in power at Washington, the corner-stone of America's foreign policy would con-, tinue to be friendship and close co? operation with the British people. "England," he declared, "is for many of us still an enchanted countryl— a country which has proved anew that even in these difficult and changing times her ancient greatness has not doparted from her, and that she. is fitfU ' a bulwark for the cause of men.' " The financial structure of the United States, Mr. Mellon went on, had stood the strain of the greatest jnaladjust. meat in history remarkably well. The burden of debt was very heavy, and had cut deeply into the country's purchasing power, but debt had ft way of liquidating itself in time. TIME AND PATIENCE. " The real problem in America,'' went on Mr. Mellon, "is ono of adjustment to the shifts in economic power which the World War brought about. "Before 1914 the United States was a debtor nation, sending annually large sums to Europe in payment of her obligations here. Pour years later the situation had been reversed with, a completeness ami a rapidity such as the world had never witnessed before. . "Such a change was bound to sot up n. maladjustment both in Amovica and Europe. .It will take time, I fear, and patieneo and more than one conference, perhaps, to adjust ourselves to this and other changes which the war has left in its wake, "We are, however, making progress. What the next twelve months hold for us I do not know, but I have faith to believe that some solution for our most pressing problems can and will be found. . "New men will soon be at the helm, ready and capable of grappling with the problems. They are men schooled in the best American tradition, and they will bo fully as zealous as their predecessors not only in upholding the best interests of the United States, but 5H trying to m»ko that interest coincide with the larger welfare of tho world, A COMMON POSSESSION. "The British and American people share many things ire common, not tho least important of which is common sense. Our common language, about which' wo hear so much, is in some respects more of a hindrance than a help. Too often it served as a channel of commuuication for things that were better left unsaid, with results that1 make us believe with St. Paul that 'Evil communications corrupt good manners.' "Pift'erences between us there will always be, and things will bo said on both sides of the Atlantic that will make the judicious grieve. While these things may affect a country's popularity, which is, after all, a. thing of the moment and in tho lives of nations is not, important, they do not have the power to destroy friendship between nations, especially when it is based, as in the case of England .and America, on mutual respect'and a general feeling of moving in the same direction in history and along parallel lines that need never collide." - ■