HANDS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 6 May 1925, Page 9

HANDS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

Anglo-American Friendship

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'S APPEAL.

Oy Oablo—Preos Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 5, 9.25 p.m.) LONDON, May 5.

The United States’ Ambassador, Mr Houghton, was the guest at tin, Pilgrim Club banquet, when there was a big gathering of ambassadors and notabilities.

The Prime Minister, Mr Baldwin, proposing Mr Houghton’s health, emphasised the necessity of preventing misunderstanding between Britain and America. The danger was greater because they used the common tongue. With foreign countries, asides uttered by individuals or the Press, and veiled, in the decent obscurity of unknown language, have to be hunted up and translated, and in translation lose what the Americans call “pep.” But foolish words uttered on either side of the Atlantic, not needing translation, are cabled in naked crudity, and may rankle. Mr Houghton, in the course of his reply, said the full measure of American helpfulness in Europe could only be given when America was assured that destructive policies were ending, and that peaceful building up would come. If Europe said “Peace,” America then would help with her generous utmost.