AMERICAN OPINION.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4011, 10 June 1920, Page 2

AMERICAN OPINION.

CONVICTIONS OF CORNFORTH. (By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Aust.-N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received June 10, 9 a.m.) Sydney, June 10. Mr Coriiforth, managing director of the Vacuum Oil Co., who has just returned from a six months' visit to the United States, deprecated the Australasian published public opinion tha fc America did not care a fig for the League of Nations. He says he found that Americans did care, but they objected to the inclusion of any clauso in the Covenant which would inevitably embroil the United States in a war in Europe. Mr Cornfoi'th declared that President Wilson was the best-hated man in America, and he had no chance whatever of being returned at the presidential elections. - Regarding the Pacific questions, he found that influential American opinion favoured an alliance between Australia, New Zealand and America, in view of their common peril;' The menace was considered a very live one, indeed, and Americans look for some move on the part of Australia and New Zealand towrds a union, having with its object mutual protection against potential dangers in the Pacific waters. A source of wonder among Americans was that Australia'and New Zealand failed to arrange a direct exchange of goods owing to exchange through London. Industrially and commercially the United States was in a state of great unrest, and very > hard, times were ahead, chiefly as jbhe result of the "tightening of the money market, the scarcity of raw material, and the shortage of labour.