BRITAIN AND U.S.A.

Grey River Argus, 8 July 1943, Page 8

BRITAIN AND U.S.A.

MUST STICK MR EDEN’S SPEECH RUGBY, July 1. “The lesson of the Twentieth Century is the utter interdependence of all ’ nations,” declared the Foreign Secretary (Mr Eden), in London, speaking at the 25th anniversary reception of the English Speaking Union. He believed that hopes for an enduring Anglo-American understanding were more promising to-day than they had ever been. Mr Eden said he was not so optimistic as to pretend there would be no difference between the United States and the , British Commonwealth “There will be differences, and it’ would not be reasonable Io suppose opr outlook will always be exactly the same on all the manifold problems and complexities vf the modern world. There will be divergencies of view on major and minor issues, and the minor issues can prove as troublesome as the major ones to the smooth working of international relations. An essential is that the broad conception of world policy should be the same and that we should be so closely united on all the fundamentals that we can take the strains and stresses as and when they come without damaging the main structure of our friendship.

The work which General Eisenhower had done had literally no parallel in history. His staff was not an Allied staff composed of British and American officers, it was just one staff knowing no difference of nationality and knowing only one loyalty—to fulfil the common purpose. What could be done in North Africa in war could be done elsewhere in peace.