BRITAIN AND AMERICA

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12016, 19 March 1920, Page 8

BRITAIN AND AMERICA

United fross Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received March 19, noon. London, March 18 Speaking at the Pilgrims’ Dinner to-night Sir Auckland Geddes pleaded eloquently for improved relations between Britain and the United States, and deplored the publication of articles and papmhlets on both sides of the Atlantic designed to diminish mutual trust between the two countries, declaring that all the articles , were deliberately partial, or encouraging Anglophobia or Americanophobia, always evil but never more evil than now. Comparing the growth of the British Empire wherein England became a United States of which New England was a mere fragment, he emphasised the unity of purpose actuating each, maintaining that the principal difference was the result of historical accident and that one had to think mainly in terms of a continuous land and the other of a continuous sea.