BRITAIN'S STABILITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23181, 29 October 1938, Page 15

BRITAIN'S STABILITY

SHEET ANCHOR OF WORLD PROSPERITY AND HAPPINESS "Great Britain is the sheet anchor of the world to-day," said Mr. R. H. Nimmo, of Wellington, in giving members of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon yesterday his impressions gained during a seven months' visit overseas. Mr. Nimmo, who is a member of the executive of both the New Zealand Associated Chambers of Commerce and the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, and a director of tho New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, returned by the Monterey after visiting Britain, the Continent and the United States. r I lie president of the chamber, Mr. A. Ely, presided. ' . Mr. Nimmo said he was greatly impressed with the industrial prosperity of Britain, the happiness of the people and their rock-like stability. It made him proud to bo British. Germany, too, he had found prosperous. In the ,United States he had been amazed to find evidence of despair and a reluctance to invest capital, which was slowing: up the wheels of industry. Mr. Chamberlain'B masterly diplomacy in the recent crisis, said Mr. Nimmo, would rank the British Primo Minister as one of the greatest statesmen the Empire had known. Mr. Nimmo mentioned the friendliness of the American people toward .Britain, and expressed the view that they would stand behind Britain almost 100 ger cent. He also emphasised that tho erman people did not want war. Mr. Nimmo said that in addition to representing the Associated Chambers of Commerce and the Wellington chamber, he had conducted negotiations on behalf of the Centennial Exhibition. He was confident that Britain, Canada, California, Honolulu and Suva would take part in the exhibition, which was creating widespread interest.