BRITAIN AND AMERICA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19048, 27 June 1924, Page 4

BRITAIN AND AMERICA

Though debarred from participation in it, an influential American journal, the Christian Science Monitor, of Boston, urges that Americans should take particular interest in the Wembley Exhibition, “constituting as it docs a display of the material wealth and resources of the nation with which their country must always maintain friendly, and even intimate, relationship.” After remarking that the British Commonwealth of Nations is in itself an Eng-lish-speaking union, the Monitor urges that if there can be harmony existing between the Government at Whitehall and that at Ottawa, at Pretoria, at Melbourne, Hongkong, Delhi, or at Wellington, there can surely always be maintained harmony and a complete understanding between Washington and Westminster. The points of divergence which might affect unfavourably peaceful relations between Great Britain and the United States will seldom be more acute than those which continually lead to a clash of interests between England and, let us say, New South Wales or New Zealand. The great exhibition, which is going to bind more closely the overseas nations under the British flag to their home Government, may well be made an occasion for a closer rapprochement between the United States and the other great English-speaking Power. Many great organisations in the United States are preparing to hold their official conventions in London during the coming summer. Notable among these are the American Bar Association and the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. Perhaps out of this new occasion for intimacy may come a fuller comprehension and acceptance by Americans and by Englishmen of that expression of international fellowship which found voice in the speech of Premier Ramsay MacDonald at the dinner recently given to the new American Ambassador at the Court of St. James’s, Mr. Kellogg. Mr. Ramsay jMacDonald said:—“America and ourselves —we want no alliance, we want jno documents—America and ourselves I are in the position cf two peoples that iin spirit, by reason of those great i moral and spiritual forces that are deImeaned and narrowed by being written down on paper, are prepared to stand side by side, not in political alliance, but in human fellowship to help each other. ’ ’