AMERICAN IDEALISM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 April 1938, Page 6

AMERICAN IDEALISM

OBSERVATIONS BY VISCOUNT CECIL.

“Do not let us be silly enough to despise ideology,” said Viscount Cecil in an address on his observations of American opinion during a recent visit to the United States. “It is the ideal which has made great changes in the world. The ideal of peace, the hatred of war, is sometimes expressed (as I think) in exaggerated and even unwise terms, but it exists in America. America, as a great and powerful nation, has a growing conviction that even if they are protected by the great oceans from any immediate attack, they still depend upon the peace of the world if their great country is to go on prospering as it has prospered in the past. Therefore I am quite convinced that if we British can present our case and demonstrate that our foreign policy cares not so much for this or that individual interest of this country and its subjects, but is all out to protect the whole world from war, not only because if it is the right thing to do, but also because without that the future of civilisation is black indeed, then I am satisfied that our case will be widely acclaimed in the United States.”