BRITISH ACCOUNTANTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 27

BRITISH ACCOUNTANTS

AMERICAN'S HIGH TRIBUTE

Colonel E. H. Montgomery, one of the most distinguished accountants of the United States of America, paid high tribute to British accountants at a recent conference in London. . "I have come to the conclusion," he said, /'that a nation is great in proportion to the number of professional accountants within its borders. Go to any place you like in the world, and there you will find the British accountant. Visit England, and you will find him represented in all that has made England great. And this goes on, even though you have a most terrible climate and you wear too many clothes in hot weather. ■ "The honour and integrity of the British nation, as carried round the globe by. the British' accountant, have left an indelible impression of fairness, honesty, and righteousness, and as you have dealt with others, so others will deal with you. . "All over the world the British accountant has been, found —and for what purpose? It has been to seek the truth, and when, it is known thas what you want is the truth, the whole truth and nothing, but the truth, the seeker of the truth justly acquires a reputation for fair' play and honefty in his dealings with iris fellow, men. "May the 'British accountants continuer to carry the proud banner of Britain;throughout the globe and continue to give us, who live in better climates and "who wear fewer clothes in the Summer time, an example of high thinking at all times, courage when it is most needed, and friendship which is as genuine and as tight and as right as your little island har been and always .will be." '