“COMMON SENSE”

Southland Times, Issue 20662, 18 April 1929, Page 7

“COMMON SENSE”

ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

U.S. DIPLOMAT’S PLEA

Washington, March 17.

Official interest has been centred upon an article by Mr. John Davis, a former U.S. Ambassador to Britain, dealing with AngloAmerican relations.

Mr. Davis was impressed by the gravity of the friction that has developed between the two countries, yet he believes that commonsense is all that needs to be applied to the situation.

Recognizing that the trouble is attached mainly to naval differences, he says, “the whole crux of the matter lies in an effort to make it reasonably probable that in future naval conflicts, the policies of Britain and the United States will cause their navies to work in harmony.” Mr. Davis sees as an act of national wickedness any American sale of supplies to an outlaw State, or the protection of munition makers attempting to sell to a country which had refused to settle its dispute by the pacific means suggested by the Kellogg agreement. He pleads that goodwill, sincerity, understanding and commonsense should supplant the strategy, distrust and the willingness to be suspicious which have of late marked the attitude of the countries toward each other.—Sydney Sun.