“AMERICAN ACCENT”
UNKNOWN IN U.S.A. Mr Robert W. Bingham, the United States Ambassador, addressing the Countrywomen of the World at the American Embassy in London recently, said he had been a great many years trying to track down what Avas known as the American accent. “When I hear it on the London stage,” he said, “I And it a- most extraordinarily interesting thing. I see it, too, in the British newspapers, let, born and bred in America, I have novel yet come in contact with what the Bi itish call ‘the American accent.’ V e will have to fiiid another Columbus to discover it. (Laughter.) “It is the inner language which we speak in common which constitutes the really indestructible tie. ■ “It is in the hands of the women of the world to show us the foolishness and obscenity of war and to bring peace to our "world,” Mr *' Bingham added. .
• “I do feel how vital it is' that there should be complete friendilenss and co-operation between the British people and the people of my own country. We are not merely cousins, but brethren in the great mission of maintaining the welfare and peace of the whole world.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 11
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