AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1921, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PRESIDENT HARDING ON UNITED STATES’ FUTURE. NEW YORK, Aug. 1. At Plymouth, Massachusetts, President Harding in a speech at the Tercentenary Celebrations of the Pilgrims, said: —‘‘A new hope looms to-day. We are slowly but surely recovering from the waste, sorrows and utter disarrangements of a cataclysmic war. Peace is bringing its

new assurances; and j\ penitent reand an insistent conscience /wpKvill preserve that peace. Our faith is v firmer that war’s causes uiay be minimised and that overburdening armaments may largely diminish, and these too without any surrender of the nationality which has inspired them, or the good conscience which they have defended. The international prospects are more than promising, and the distress and depression j at homo are symptomatic of an early recovery. We are solvent financially, sound economically, unrivalled in genius, unexcelled in industry, and unwavering in faith. The United States will carry on the community of the free people of our race, whether in Europe or America, Africa or Australia under northern or southern skies. That community was begun when Jamestown and Plymouth! were founded. We stand to-day liefore the unknown, but we look to I the future with unshaken confidence. I One outstanding danger to-day is aj tendency to .turn to Washington for I things which are the task and duties I of the forty-eight communities consti-1 tuting the nation. | HOOVER and RELIEF WORK. I WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. |

Mr Hoover, commenting on Russia’s acceptance of relief said:-Tl»e whole thing has some colour of propaganda. The appeal to American sympathy w designed to bring about relations with the United States. The industrial collapse of Russia was brought about by theso conditions of widespread prevalence of disease and famine which represents the fruits of this collapse. Interest is attached to the activities of Senator France in Russia. He is , quoted as advocating the granting of a 2,000,000,000 dollars loan to Russia in order to put it on its feet economically. He believes this credit could lie arranged by means of a receivership whereby the loan repayments would take precedence of all other obligations. It & understood the Relief Committee are able to spend 150.000 dollars monthly in Russia without calling I on the American people, due to large I reserves. I