BRITAIN AND AMERICA.
LESSONS OF HISTORY. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYEIGHT WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. That the teaching of American history and geography in English schools and the acquisition of a greater personal knowledge of the United States means the strengthening of a good understanding betAveen the Englishspeaking countries was urged in an address by the British Ambassador in the United States (Sir Esme Howard), Avhich was broadcasted in order to establish communication with Europe. “Once we lisve established a feeling of absolute confidence in one another,” he said, “we shall have attained to the certainty that, com© what may, nothing will be allowed to break the peace between us. and when the rest of the world comes to believe this the cause of Avorld peace will have made a giant stride forward. Requiring English schoolboys to read a short life of Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt Avould bring America vividly before the eyes of oujr young people.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 November 1924, Page 5
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