AMERICA ALOOF

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11255, 6 July 1922, Page 8

AMERICA ALOOF

BUT SYMPATHETIC PRESIDENT HARDING ON FOREIGN RELATIONS. “FRIEND AND EXEMPLAR.” By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July o, S.lO p.m.) NEfW YORK, July 4. In his speech at Marion, President Harding, referring to foreign relations, said: “All is well with our international relations. They are secured today with more assuring prospects of peace than ever before in the history of the Republic. New guarantees have recently been added by the very process of exchanging viewpoints and bringing spokesmen of the great nations, to the conference table, where it was resolved to do together those finer and nobler things which no one nation could do alone. We cannot _ be aloof from the world, hut we can impress the world with American ideals. Even Russia, towards wihom we maintain an attitude of aloofness, save in sympathy, looks upon America as a friend and exemplar.” The President expressed determination to enforce prohibition. He said that the eighteenth amendment denied to the minority the fancied sense of personal liberty, 'nut the amendment was the will of America and must he sustained by the Government and public opinion, else contempt for the law would undermine our very foundation.