APPEAL TO UNITED STATES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 August 1923, Page 5

APPEAL TO UNITED STATES

NEW YORK, Aug. 24. At Williamstown-, Massachusetts, Lord Birkenhead delivered his final leoturp to> thft Institute of Politics. He declared that he> hoped and believed that the nations that saved civilisation would unite in the sreater task of winning the peace. He appealed to the self interest of the United States in the crisis, deprecating an altruistic viewpoint in world affairs, and finally showed how much the abandonment of the isolation policy would benefit the United States.

_ The speaker condemned the bccupartion of tho Ruhr, but said the future must tell whether the French or the British were rissit in that controversy.1 Nevertheless, he saw in continued occupation no promising prospect, of Britain's recovering her war debts from her war associates. He added : "Under the* circumsta"n<>es vr& nr>x> say to. Europe, 'continue if you will the ruinous courses to which you ar^ committed.' The British people will anneal to their own people to develop their own markets, and Britain will concentrate its own finances and resour<>ps upon its own Dominions by extending and encouraging colonial markets. But this would mean that we would re/wil from the larger task of stat^raft, after having won a great strucmle. "I hone the nationr of the world wl"'} realise that their individual int-^est r"quires that some mtnmnTi effort I^-e nin.rl« t-f alleviate the mißerv under which Euroj>e groans and may succumb. Then shall we have won the greatest peace in history."