DREAMER AND IDEALIST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17948, 28 November 1932, Page 9

DREAMER AND IDEALIST

TRIBUTE TO SIR R. STOUT LIFE TO BE WRITTEN “I am here to write a biography of one of New Zealand’s ablest and wisest statesmen, Sir Robert Stout, ’ said Professor Waldo PI. Dunn, of Wooster, Ohio, to a gathering of the- Wellington branch of the English-speaking Union. • “His idealism so far jtrasccnded that of most of his contemporaries that lie was by many regarded as a dreamer. Long ago I became interested in nun, because of his views in regard to the future of the English-speaking people. Ho loved Britain, the land of Ins birth ; lie loved New Zealand, the land of his adoption; lie loved America, winch he always thought oi* as a Greater Britain. But beyond 'the geographical boundaries he loved the English-speaking peoples, and he longed to see them united ana working together lor Hie peace ana harmony and regulation of the world. “I luive not time now to go into detail as to his utterances. His writings arc full of references to this matter. 1 shall quote but one brief passage: j strongly believe that if the British am American people can come together, the peace of the world would be assured. This i s w liat the Americans and the best English want. Wlgm I read such words, 1 am fired with a passion that the will of the best Americans and the best British may prevail.” a