AMERICA AND BRITAIN

Patea Mail, 14 May 1941, Page 4

AMERICA AND BRITAIN

A STRANGE PROPHECY

Over forty years ago a young novelist 'wrote these closing words to a story of .(lie American war:—

“■Th" Wnr of Independence is finish - ecl. The hit terness anil niistahes of the past will in: forgotten, and the time will conic when I lie Union Joel: nnd the Stars nnd Stripes -will f!ont together as a hnlv. ork ag dnst o)t;)ression. ” Snrelv re >;'r>7l was ever more closely linked e.iMi the fnlfilieen! of his own propheev. The anthor was Winston Churchill, an American, not the present I '. ‘■ ■: ’J’li’shi' of Eritnin.