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Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1937, Page 4

Writing on the experiences on a visit to Britain, Dr. Lynn H. Hough, Dean of Drew University, United States, says:—As our American goes about the world he meets men of British stock 111 many lands and under many circumstances. He come to depend upon them for understanding and co-opera-tion and fair play. The day comes when he is ready to say that, if he had to stand with his back against the wall with just one man as a companion, he would choose a man of British extraction. So lie goes home a little wistfully, even though he knows that, for every man, his own land is best for the purposes of living and working and making some contribution to the ongoing of the life 0! the world. He paces the deck of his ship, as it moves westward, with serious face and sometimes with furrowed brow. He has come to see how grim and difficult is the situation of the world. He lias begun to suspect that, in the difficult days which lie ahead, there will he no such thing as “an isolated nation.’’ Perhaps, as lie moves about on his ship, lie hears the far-off rumbling of strange events which yet belong to the future. He is not sure that he knows how to find his way. He is not sure that his nation knows how to find its way. He is not sure that any nations knows how to find its way. But as he nears his own shores Inis very glad for the Hand on tin* edge of The Continent of Europe, where, more than in most lands, a torch is

held high which may at last give illumination to the whole world.