AMERICA'S FRIENDSHIP

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3716, 26 October 1926, Page 7

AMERICA'S FRIENDSHIP

SECRETARY KELLOGG'S 'ASSURANCE A monument to Commodore. MaeDonough U.S.N. who in 1814 beat off a, British attack in an engagement which proved to bo tho last, naval encounter between (be two English-speaking nations, was recently unveiled at Plattsburgh by Mr F. H. Kellogg, the United States Secretary of State. 'Tins battle ended hostile action between Bleat Britain and the United Slates," he said. "It did more. It initialed I hat. friendship between the. two great brunches of the Anglo-Saxon race which has endured for over 100 years. It is a friendship which lias enabled as to maintain a common frontier with Canada for thousands of miles without aimed defences on either side, a condition made possible only by tho mutual faith which the one people has for the other. Here let me add that tho last relic of an armed frontier is about to disappear. The old United Slates vessel, the side-wheeler Wolverine, is about to pass into the possession of tho City of Erie. This friendship has on many occasions extended far beyond the passive friendship of an ungnarded frontier until it culminated when our men stood shoulder to shoulder in France. The British Boverinnont and the* Bovernment of tho United .Styles have frequently found themselves in accord in representing mid voicing the aspirations of our two peoples toward right and justice. . . .

It is inconceivable, that anything can bring these nations again into the conflict of war. Jbli'erences will arise as (hey have in the past, but. they can and will he settled without the arbitrament of arms. Two peoples which have to a great extent tho same historical background, (ho same respect for law and love of justice, tho same ideals of governiuvui and international conduct, cannot again imperil tho world by going to war with each other. I should despair of tho future of our civilisation if this werenot m,, mid here in the presence of theheroic dead of lo>l hj nations let us againpledge ourselves to (he maintenance peace.”