ANGLO-AMERICAN AMITY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3609, 15 May 1923, Page 20

ANGLO-AMERICAN AMITY.

EQUIVALENT TO ALLIANCE. LONDON, April 25. The feature of the fourth annual reunion of British war missions to the United States to-night was the declaration of the United States Ambassador, Colonel Harvey. “Your payments to the United States are' the cheapest insurance any country could have. I would like to see Germany or any other Power attack Britain now.”

Mr Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, presided, and the speakers included Mr Stanley Baldwin (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and MajorGeneral Headlam.

Mr Baldwin made an eloquent appeal for the United States’ co-operation to end war. He said that if the two peoples on either side the Atlantic, bound by a common language and ideals, could not end war, he did not know how it could he done.”

“We,” he said, “are determined, so far as it is in us, that we shall have no war with Europe, and we call on all who speak our language to join hands with us, and see that there is peace among nations.”

AUSTRALASIA’S SAFEGUARD.

LONDON, April 26. “If anything brings discord between Britain and the United States, Australia and New Zealand are doomed,” said Mr Lothrop Stoddard, the American writer on sociological questions, addressing the English-speaking Union. “ And they know it,” he added. Their racial life is at stake, and they would be swamped from Asia.