MANY ROOTS IN COMMON.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18201, 27 February 1929, Page 2

MANY ROOTS IN COMMON.

ANGLO-AMERICAN ASPIRATIONS. FOREIGN MINISTER’S APPEAL. (British Office*l Wirolsss.i RUGBY, February 23. Sir Austen Chamberlain, speaking at Torquay last night, said that Great Britain and the United States had many roots in common in their past history and lived largely under the same laws and spoke the same language. “We have recently hud some discussion with them in which we have not

been able to reach an agreement,’’ he added. “We have such discussions not infrequently with the same result, yet nobody becomes alarmed or thinks it an unusual thing if a common solution of a difficult problem cannot be reached. The measure of attention which lias been given to whatever differences have existed between the United States and ourselves is not really the intrinsic value of the questions at stake, but is a measure of the desire which we have for friendship with a nation which is most akin to our own.”

Dealing with the achievements of the Government, Sir Austen Chamberlain said that nobody Mould deny that not only was world peace more secure and that they were discussing their international difficulties in a new and better spirit, but that they had also turned over a new leaf and closed the chapter of the Great War and the years that followed. The Government had opened a brighter chapter. The early years which followed the signing of peace brought no peace to the nations, but the position became worse, and it had seemed a certain prediction that .sooner or later, perhaps not in bis time, but in that of his children or grandchildren, the old conditions would again arise, ar.d the world would be flung once more into a terrible struggle from which Western civilisation would never again emerge. It was upon some such a Europe, where behind all and at the root of all lay a feeling cf fear and signs of insecurity, that he at first looked out of the Foreign Office window.