EMPIRE AND U.S.A

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 11

EMPIRE AND U.S.A

CO-OPERATION URGED TO KEEP WORLD PEACE SYDNEY, Aug. 13. “If in .July, 1914. the British Empire and the United States lin'd sniff they would defend with all their resources any country wrongly attacked, would there have been a world war?” ■Sir Henry Braddon asked tliis question when he addressed members of the Beal Estate Institute at a- luncheon atFarmer’s yesterday oil the subject of Anglo-American co-operation. Last month, Sir Henry presided at a meeting of citizens which decided to form an organisation “to attain by agreement between the Governments close cooperation between the British Empire and the. United Stales for the maintenance of world peace.”

Sir Henry said that, it, would not, bo rnsv In attain co-operation. .Education was needed' both in British countries and in Die United States. If one wanted In he fair to the Americans one huff to appreciate their problems. Many of Die elementary history hooks used in American schools iqi to a few years ago had been written by German professors, and they had pictured England as the traditional enemy. These books had nearly all been corrected now, hut, they had left their impression in the minds of the older men. It- was hard to eradicate this impression, but he thought, it, was in process of being expunged.