BRITAIN’S PROBLEMS.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18631, 9 May 1932, Page 7

BRITAIN’S PROBLEMS.

FAITH IN THE PEOPLE. ADDRESS BY MR MELLON. RUGBY, May 7. The United States Ambassador to Britain, Mr Andrew Mellon was welcomed to the city at a luncheon in the Mansion House, presided over by the Lord Mayor, Sir Maurice Jenks. In replying to the toast of his health Mr Mellon referred to the dire prediction he had heard during the crisis in England last autumn. Knowing the steadiness, courage and real capacity of the British people, however, he had never for a moment doubted that they would rise to the occasion and surmount their difficulties as they always did in a great emergency.

Similarly, faith In America was fully justified. Congress w r as seeking means to levy more than £1,000,000,000 of new taxes. There Nvas a very clear understanding of what should and must be done by the party leaders in the United States, and by the President, who had shown leadership of the highest order in submitting a programme of legislation designed to strengthen the credit structure of the country and restore confidence.