BOND OF LANGUAGE

Evening Star, Issue 18543, 28 January 1924, Page 5

BOND OF LANGUAGE

THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrignt. NEW YORK, January 25. The English-speaking Union gave a farewell dinner to Sir Auckland Geddes, at which Mr Donald MacKinnon (Commissioner for Australia to the United States) was also a guest of honor. Sir Auckland Geddes, in the course of a speech, expressed regret at the necessity for leaving his post. He pointed out the satisfactory and increasing goodwill between Britain and the United states. In the course of a speech, Mr MacKinnon compared Sir Auckland Geddcs’s services with those of Lord Bryce, when the latter was Ambassador to the United States. Mr MacKinnon stressed the growth of the English-speaking Union in Australia, indicating that Scotsmen, Irishmen, and Welshmen wore taking a prominent part in the organisation’s activities, showing the solidarity of the people who spoke English irrespective of their country of origin. He concluded with an expression of satisfaction at the growth of Democracy -throughout the world, and expressed the opinion that tho English-speaking Union was especially designed to servo Democracy’s cause. —A. and N.Z. Cable.