UNITED STATES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1586, 11 June 1920, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

A VISITOR'S IMPRESSION'S.

POTENTIAL DANGERS IN THE

PACIFIC

AF i ALTERICAN-AUSTR A I .ASIAN

ALLIANCE

[Atist. and N.Z. Cable Association.] SYDNEY, Yesterday.

I.': Comforth, managing director of the Vacuum Oil Company, who lias returned from a six months' visit to the l/nited States, deprecates the Australasian opinion that "America did not c;>re a fig for the League of Isation'-." He found the United States did care, but objected to the inclusion of the clause in the League whic! would inevitably embroil the United States in war in Europe. Mr Comforth declared that President Wilson was the best-hated man in America. There was no chance of his being returned at the Presidential elections. Regarding the Pacific, Mr Cornforth found that influential American opinion favoured an alliance between Australasia and America, in view of the!-' common peril. There the menace is considered a very live one indeed, and America looks for some move on the part of Australia and New Zealand towards a union having for its Objec; mutual protection against potential dangers in Pacific waters. A sour.'- of wonder among* the Americans was that Australia and New Zealand failed to arrange direct exchange with America, instead of paying t r per cent, extra for goods, owing to exchange, through London. Industrially and commercially the Unbi-'J States was in a state of great unrest. Extremely hard times were ahead, chiefly as the result of the tightening of the money market, scarcity of raw materials, and the sho r I :>,%q oi 1a I >ou r.