VITAL NEED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 306, 24 November 1932, Page 7

VITAL NEED.

ANGLO-AMERICAN UNDERSTANDING. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 22. The Secretary of Avar, Lord Hailsham, speaking at the Anglo-American Pilgrims’ Club in London to-day, called attention to news pictures which had appeared in certain of the American newspapers purporting to show unemployed creating riots outside Buckingham Palace. He said that those pictures were not taken in 1932 but in 1928, and instead of representing a riotous, starving mob attempting to enter Buckingham Palace in their effort to make protests to their Sovereign, they represented in fact the anxiety of many thousands of British citizens who had gathered at Buckingham Palace when the health of the King was in danger. Lord Hailsham protested against this flagrant attempt to misrepresent conditions in Britain, and paid a warm tribute to American ConsulsGeneral in London for giving a faithful account of British events and sentiment. There had never been a time, lie said, when it was more important that Britain and America should understand one another. As the two nations during the War had protected civilisation from a violent death, they had now to protect the economic world from equally certain disaster.