BRITAIN AND AMERICA

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3939, 13 August 1937, Page 2

BRITAIN AND AMERICA

TIME THEY UNDERSTOOD EACH OTHER. “We of the United States and of the British Commonwealth of Nations have the most precious heritage among ail nations of this earth—a heritage of freedom, a right of the individual to order and justice, and I believe that a tremendous and valuable contribution to the peace of the world has been made by the British Empire and ourselves patiently rearming. The British nation and ourselves patiently, sincerely and earnestly sought to bring other nations of the world in the pathway of peace. We did it so sincerely that we did it not only by precept but by example. They would not listen to us. While we waited and hoped and laboured, they built up these great armaments. For what? For aggression. No nation requires bombing aeroplanes, great mobile artillery, and heavy tanks unless they intend to plunder and murder their neighbours. We of my country and the British Commonwealth, realising that argument, suasion and example have all been in vain, have determined that we must protect our own.” —The American Ambassador to Britain, Mr Bingham.