MUST WORK IN

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18888, 31 December 1926, Page 15

MUST WORK IN

UNITY.

U.S.A. AND BRITAIN. MANKIND'S ONLY HOPE. i»r CABLI—?««* ASSOrUTIOX-COrTRIGHT.': {ACSTEALIAH ASD X.S. CABLE ASSOCIATION-.I NEW YORK, December 2). In his first public utterance in the United States, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Bruce chose as his keynote the urgent necessity for the closest co-operation between the United. States and the British Empire. Addressing an afternoon gathering of the English-speaking Union, he declared "If Britain and America will work together there is hope for mankind. If they do not, nothing mankind can devise will possibly succeed. ' Reviewing the after-war conditions in Europe, lie paiuted a gloomy picture, and told his audience that, despite the sacrifices of war, he felt that the creafc ideals for which they had fought so far had shown little s'.gn of realisation. There was, however, a silver lining to the dark clouds overhanging civilisation, and that was a better understanding between the English-speaking races and the United States. Ho urged Americans to rid their minds of the conception of England as an old, encrusted Empire founded upon conquest and oppression, and antagonistic to democratic progress, and substitute a picture of a commonwealth of free nations animated by the same spirit as permeated the United States.

He proceeded to detail the great efforts made by Great Britain in the past few years to secure improved relations with the United States. Great Britain \ras the first to pay her debt, the first to accept an invitation to the Disarmament Conference, and even gladly accepted the abolition of the three-mile limit.

In this spirit of co-operation Ilio world's two greatest nations should work together to restore sanity to the rest of the world.

MR BRUCE'S LENGTHY PROGRAMME.

(AUSTRALIAN AND g.l. CABIS ASSOCIATION.)

(Received December 30th, 5.5 p.m.)

NEW YORK, Deeember 29.

Mr Bruce spent a strenuous day, beginning with a luncheon attended by the most prominent financiers and industrialists. He attended the English-Speak-ing Union's reception, at which he made a lengthy address concerning the necessity for a continuance of the friendship between England and America for the peace of the world and concluded with a dinner given by the Pilgrims' Society at which he spoke in a similar tenor. The bankers' luncheon was private, but it is understood that the address there was substantially concerning the same subject as the address before bankers in England, and contained a correction of an erroneous statement sent by an American journalist to a financial journal in New York, stating that English financiers were hesitating to lend money to Australian Labour Governments. The guests at the luncheon included Mr Otto Kuhn, of Kuhn, Lo'eb, and Co., Mr Thomas Lamok, of the J. P. Morgan Company, and Mr Elbert Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation,

TORONTO UNIVERSITY TO CONFER DEGREE.

(AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLI ASSOCIATION)

(Received December 30th, 11.20 p.m.)

OTTAWA, December 29. The Toronto University on Tuesday confers a Doctorship of Laws on AllBruce.