TO HELP EUROPE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 May 1925, Page 5

TO HELP EUROPE.

AMERICA. READY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LOINDOiN, May 5. Mr. Olonzo Houghton, who. succeeded* Mr. Frank B. Kellogg' a.s American Ambassador to Britain, was the guest of the Pilgrim 01 ub at a banquet., Avhen there was a big gathering of amibassadons and notabilities. The Prime Minister (Mr. Stanley Baldwin), in proposing Mr. Houghton’s health, emphasised the necessity for preventing misunderstanding between Britain" and America, The danger was greater because they had a common tongue. With foreign countries asides uttered by individuals or the press and veiled in. the decent obscurity of an unknown language had to be hunted up .and translated, and in the translation lost what the Aanerlcans called “pe,p.’’ But foolish words uttered on either side of the Atlantic, not needing translation, were cabled in their naked: crudity, and might rankle. Mr. Houghton, in replying, said the full measure of American •helpfulness to Europe could only be given when America was assured that the time of destructive policies was past. The time of peaceful building up would come if Europe said peace. America would then help with the utmost generosity.