POWERS IN HARMONY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19519, 29 December 1937, Page 5

POWERS IN HARMONY

BRITAIN AND AMERICA INFLUENCE FOR PEACE LONDON, Dec. 28. “If the Christmas season has seen a perceptible easing of diplomatic tension, that welcome effect may be attributed in no little way to the harmonious attitude and action of the British and American Governments," says the Daily Telegraph in a leading article. Describing as significent an editorial in the New York Times urging parallel British and American roads toward peace, the Telegraph adds: “Such a declaration is no less welcomed and reciprocated in Britain because there is no thought that such parallel action would be used by either party to pull out the other’s chestnuts from the fire.” The News-Chronicle considers the editorial of the New York Times so remarkable and its significance so great that it reproduces it in full, with editorial comment: “We entirely agree,” the Daily Herald says, "that the new force on the side of peace is the co-operation of Britain and the United States. Yet one thing that will kill this co-operation stone dead is a failure of the British and American trade negotiations through the insistence of sectional interests here upon the maintenance of big tariffs. “Another would be Britain’s failure to honour her principles and obligations under the covenant of the League.”