“FAMILY DISPUTES”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11376, 29 November 1930, Page 7

“FAMILY DISPUTES”

■NO DEPLETION OF COUNTRY’S RESOURCES.

AUSTRALIA WILL CARRY ON

MR. BROOKES’ FAREWELL

TO AMERICA

LESSON TO UNITED STATES

(TT.P A by Bloc. Tel. Copyright,) (Received Nov. 28. o.A p.m A NEW YORK, Nov. 28.. Mr. Brookes, cx-Trade Commis-sioner-General of the Commonwealth in the United States, in. a farewell statement in tlio New Aork Times, stated:—

“Though Australia cannot afford the luxury of. a CommissionerOcneral. the retiring incumbent of that office finds that he. cannot leave America without, indulging m the luxury of a few homelv observations of wliat ii/ is that draws the British Empire and the United States closer together in love, ppaco and cultural interests., yet pulls them apart in the conflict or viewpoints on international, economic and political co-operation. My wife and I are not likely’ to forget the friends we have made in the United States. . Wo understand and love the spirit of America, and while being deeply loyal to the Empire and the r J hrono, we consider the T nitod States our spiritual home. For this reason we consider every manifestation unworthy of America as not American, and long for the day when she will hold true leadership in the world, a leadership that will ease the burdens of the world.

“There is talk of a policy of trying to extricate yourselves by becoming more self-contained than over,” said Air. Brookes,, “retaining the high standards of the past by living on your own kidney fat. Such is'the advice of some politicians. Australia is undergoing probably the most serious depression in'the country’s history. We are suffering, and' are to suffer more, hut I cannot stress . too much the fact that that seriousness, is for the Australian people themselves, not for those who invested in the country’s future by purchasing Government securities. Australia will carry on.”

Air. Brookes warned his readers of ■news reports from Australia, that the affairs depicted therein were family disputes, not an indication of the depletion of the country’s resources. He asserted that the Australians will build in future on an ideal plan.

“Shall I tell you what is wrong with Australian-American affairs and American-British affairs?’’ he asked. “There is first in America a political isolationist force which is nationally-minded and exclnsionist first, builds America’s tariffs, hems her in all sides by barriers, seeking to make her too narrowly self-contained. The other group finds itself restricted and held back by the first- It is tliei Little American’ who by means of internal inflation and the closing of American markets to foreign goods is to a considerable. degree responsible for the conditions of the present- world-wide depression. Wo in Australia should be the last to throw a stone since our house 'is built in a great measure of brittle glass, and that non-shatterable. We lifted the prices in the same way, and maintained prices by means of borrowed (capital for twelve years. Both countries staved off the inevitable, but now Australia for some time has been reaping the whirlwind. The United States is really only beginning to feel the effects of her violations of economic laws.”