BONDS BETWEEN DEMOCRACIES

Southland Times, Issue 23839, 9 June 1939, Page 7

BONDS BETWEEN DEMOCRACIES

LANGUAGE, HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS ROYAL VISIT AS “ARDUOUS DUTY” (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received June 8, 8.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 7. Striking editorials on the Royal visit appear in the two most important New York newspapers. The New York Times says: “Underneath the ceremonial of the Royal visit is the success of an honest effort to draw the two English-speaking peoples closer together in the things which really matter. The British Throne continues to exist because the British people regard it as a safeguard against tyranny. In that knowledge we greet its occupants; they and their people are sharers with us in a common destiny. The liberties of England could not be destroyed without danger to our own.” The New York Herald-Tribune says: “There never was question of the cordiality with which Americans would greet King George and Queen Elizabeth upon their visit here. The bonds of language, history and basic institutions are too fundamental and enduring to be ignored in the presence of so friendly a gesture. In a difficult hour they have performed an arduous duty for their Empire, and performed it well. May their stay on this alien but friendly soil be as happy and cloudless as every American will wish it to be.”

MILITARY TREATY SUSPECTED

ANTI-BRITISH MEMBER OF CONGRESS (Received June 8, 10.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 7. The Foreign Relations Committee, which is discussing the neutrality legislation, today heard Mr G. H. Tinkham (Republican), who is notoriously anti-British. He demanded to know whether the unprecedented visit of the King “does in fact signify an entente or military understanding between the Administration and the British Government for the preservation of the British Empire at the expense of American blood and American treasure?”