AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19620, 26 April 1927, Page 13

AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

ANALYSIS OF RELATIONS. NEED FOR UNDERSTANDING. . EARL OF DERBY AND MR. BORAH By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received April 25, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, April 24. In an address at a luncheon given by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, the American Ambassador, Mr. A. E. Houghton, commented on the necessity of obtaining good feeling between Britain and the United States, though avoiding an actual alliance between the two countries. Such good feeling already existed, but there was a great need for. a little more patience and confidence, and for individual effort to understand the problems. . But the idea of an alliance meant nothing but an armed and exclusive group, which could turn the rest cf the world against them. The Earl of Derby, in replying, said he wished certain prominent Americans would visit England. He extended a personal invitation to Mr. W. E. Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States, "who always thinks the English are ogres." Let Mr. Borah come to England and be shown Lancashire, where he ■would see milllions of people who depended on industry and desired peace. The Lord Mayor of Manchester, Mr. J. 11. Swales, refused to attend the luncheon on the ground that the Municipal Corporations Act gave him precedence over everybody in Manchester except Royalty. The Lord Mayor insisted that he must \ either preside or sit at the right-hand ' side of the chairman. The arrangements were not altered and the president of the chamber presided. t t RETORT COURTEOUS. ! SENATOR ON T«HE ENGLISH# "OGRES" NOT HIS CONCEPTION* - * (Received April 25, 5.5 p.m.) > A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON, April 24. • Mr. Borah has sent a cablegram to the Manchester Evening News, which had requested him to comment on the invitation extended to him by Lord Derby at yesterday's luncheon. Jn this he says: "I do ; not need to be shown that the English people are not ogres. I never said anything of that kind and I never thought anything of that kind; quite the opposite. "I should like to know upon -what Lord Derby bases his desire to enlighten me in connection with this particular subject. I appreciate his missionary spirit, but really do not feel the need for his gospel of enlightenment. "I have no doubt there are millions of people in England who are just as anxious for industrial peace and for world peace as Lord Derby indicates. I have" no doubt their enlightened conception of industrial peace and international justice is quite as exalted as Lord Derby indicates. "I trust they and Lord Derby will exert that influence along these lines on their Government in connection with Chinese affairs. China is going to be an aid to test whether the nations which have been preaching peace want peace and those who have been preaching international justice want international justice, also whether the industrial peace which we covet for our own people is to be extended to other people. "I would really like to visit England, and hope I may find an opportunity of doing so. My mission, however, would not be the hunting of wild game such as 'ogres,' but to see and know better the people whose highest self-encomium is that of always having been loyal to their own flag, an attribute which prevails rather strongly in the United States and which I think is worth preserving."