ANGLO-U.S. AMITY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 21 November 1927, Page 7

ANGLO-U.S. AMITY

question of armaments MOVEMENTS FOR PEACE. ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION. The United States and Great Britain whirh are “ supposed to stand as the groat exponents of peace, are spending more money on preparation lor war than all the nations of Europe and Asia; except China and South America, combined,” Bishop Edgar Blake of the Methodist Episcopal Church says in the Northwestern Christian Advocate. Neverthleess it must be borne in mind that various movements are now in existence for the preservation and the further promulgation of peace. lu the Universities of Britain and America, several definite attempts have been and are being made to bring these two great English-speaking peoples into closer relations of sentiment and association.

At Magdalen College, Oxford, for example, stands the only exterior pulpit of its kind in the world. Constructed in 1480. it appears at the intersection of the walls of the nave and the tiranscept, and is in the nature of a balcony built in the angU formed by the outside walls of the chapel at a point high above the ground. Now, nearly 500 years later, a pulpit patterned in every detail after the one at Magdalen College Oxford, is being constructed at one of America’s foremost universities.

To the memory of John Bright, England’s “ Great Commoner,” Florence Brooks-Aten of New York, founder of the Brooks-Bright Foundation for the Promotion of Anglo-American Amity, dedicates her gift of an exterior pulpit for the new Princetown University chapel, according to the announcement of President Hibben at Princeton, New Jersey. INTERCHANGE OF STUDENTS. The international flavour which permeates all the activities of this organisation has been more apparent this past summer than ever before. A native of New Zealand, John Middleton Frankland was awarded the first prize at Yale University in the annual BrooksBright essay contest for students of American colleges. Erwin Dain Canham, an American Rhodes Scholar at Oriel College, was the prize winner in the essay contest at Oxford. The movement leading to the organisation of the Brooks’Bright Foundation was started in a small way four year ago by Mrs. Florence Brooks-Aten of New York, who translated into action her belief that the future of civilisation depended on friendship between the two great English-speaking nations by offering awards to the schoolboys and schoolgirls on hte subject of Anglo- American understanding. It was Mrs. Brooks-Aten’ sbelief that if anything constructive and lasting were to be accomplished, it was youth to whom the appeal should be made, by encouraging it to gain an appreciation of the historical, moral and philosophic forces by which America and Great Britain are linked. Since its inception, the Foundation has constantly gained in prominence promoting Anglo-American amity. Every year the schoolboys and schoolgirls of each country write and submit essays on some topic of biologic and economic importance to each country. Every summer some schoolboy or schoolgirl visits England at the expense of the Foundation. Essay contests are held annually at Yale University and at Oxford University. The younger generation is gaining an international viewpoint. Understanding and friendship between youth of America and the youth of Great Britain is being developed and the hope of the future is being moulded through the efforts of Florence Brooks-Aten and die BrooksBright Foundation. In addition to these movements is the organisation known as the Englishspeaking Union, in the work of which Mrs. de Castro, now visiting Havelock, takes a great part. Mrs. de Castro has travelled all over the world in her endeavours to further by propaganda, the aims of the Union, which may be briefly, summed up as a policy of encouraging everything that makes for Anglo-American unity. The work of the Union is wall worthy of support. Mrs. de Castro is at present engaged in writing a book entitled “The Call of the Empire,” in which the aims and work of the English-speaking Union will be fully set forth. She leaves shortly for England, where she will continue her work in the heart of the Empire.