WORK FOR PEASE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1924, Page 5

WORK FOR PEASE.

HOW AMERICA CAN HELP. _ INFLUENCE AGAINST WAR. ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Asad.—Copyright. Received March 19; 8.35 p.m. New York, March 18. The new British Ambassador (Sir Esme Howard), making his first public address here at a dinner given by the Pilgrims' Society, said the United States was destined to work for permanent peace in Europe, and not to permit Europe to stew in its own juice. Referring to the charge of America’s socalled splendid isolation, he said America, under the late President Harding, was not splendidly isolated, but rather splendidly helpful in many ways, and now. under President Coolidge, she was doing her best, through the instrumentality of her experts on the reparations commission, to straighten out that tangled skein. “I cannot but believe that America will feel the impulse to co-operate in the permanent peace of Europe, on which, to put it on no higher grounds, so much of her own prosperity depends,” added Sir Esme Howard. Referring to the growth of the idea of settling disputes judicially, he said it was ineon ceivable that Britain and the TTnited States should ever wish to adopt any other method. **J wish to God we could say the same of the rest of the world,” he added. Sir Esme Howard, concluding, said: “I appeal to the citizens of the United States to do all in their power to help ito create the will for peace, for with each determination against war its possibility becomes more and more remote.” M. Jusserend (the French Ambassador) followed, saying: "My ideal in the - course of a long career has been trust and friendship among the three foremost liberal nations of the world—namely, France, England and America. I never favoured exclusive union between two, but always three. I persist in my belief, considering a three-legged seat safer than a two-legged one.” M. Jusserand denied that the French sir forces were armed against Britain, adding: "We do not fear an absolutely predominant British fleet; we trust it. Jt is a friend’s fleet. There is no more reason for Britain to fear French airplanes than for France to fear the British Navy."