The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is in corporated the West Coast Times. MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1926. BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1926, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is in corporated the West Coast Times. MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1926. BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

While he recognised that the material interests of Britain and America must often seem to clash, the American Ambasador, Mr A. B. Houghton, at the reunion dinner in London of the British War Missions to the United States, said their relations were something more than mere matters of business, of budgets and balance-sheets, of tariffs and trade cycles, of temporary prosperity and depression. They concerned two nations having the same language, the same outlook on life, the same ultimate standards, the same instincts of right and wrong, the same feeling of what could be done and what could not be done. Such a relationship between the two great world Powers was unique in human history. Was it not pregnant with hope for the future that at a time when so much

seemed in ilux the two countries were in substantial agreement as to the sort of world, the sort of social life, even the sort of international relations that they desired? Their methods in seeking to realise those -ideals might differ, but difference in method did not necessarily imply disagreement as to aim. Here it seemed to him they touched reality. They found it in certain deep-lying fundamental moral conceptions of Government-, and of the life which were common to both nations. Ho thought of Britain and America not incomparative terms of power, prosperity, or wealth, or even rivalry, hut of the two great democratic peoples facing problems of infinite complexity and importance, struggling manfully, soberly, honestly to solve those problems in terms of human welfare. His deepest wish was that each might come to a more complete understanding of the problems which liarrassed and troubled the other, for out of that understanding must come the recognition that while they were advancing along different paths they were nevertheless pursuing a common purpose, and moving toward a common goal.