The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. MONDAY, MARCH, 4th 1929 GOOD RELATIONS NECESSARY.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1929, Page 4

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. MONDAY, MARCH, 4th 1929 GOOD RELATIONS NECESSARY.

L Nuouimnmv tho mainicnanrc of good relations boLween Great Britain and nmerica i.s the greatest security fur world pence. As the two dominating nations they must do a great deal to influence world polities, and in particular assist to direct the trend of international relations. Of late there has has been too much talking about Anglo-American relations by public men on both sides of the Atlantic, out Sir Austen Chamberlain s speech, reported in the cable last week, is not in this category. He foreshadowed a new idler from Britain th the United .States concerning armaments, Britain has admitted a parity between the United States naval armnnents and her own. She has never made such an admission to any other nation, aecoiding to our Foreign Minister, and the d.fforon.ees which have arisen with regard to parity have not boon differences of principal, hut merely differences which have come from the many difficulties • f applying the principal of parity of the different circumstances and conditions of the two countries. There is. however, a very vital principal involved. If Britain granted what America means by the freedom of the seas she would he gi.ing up the weapon or blockade, which was a great factor in securing victory in the war. In the meantime, two other speeches of a onciliatory character may be not'd, the British Ambassador at Washington says that George Washington in ,- st eventually prove toe greatest link in the chain of friendship and common understanding between the United States and Britain ; and on the other side Mr Coolidge said only a day or two earlier that the people of England felt that even in the defeat of their arms abroad Washington carried their ideals to victory at home. This says dn Exchange is an aspect of the American victory over “the unnatural parent” that Americans are apt to overlook. Many of the best minds in Britain were opposed to the coercion of the colonies, and the victory of the “rebels” boro fruit in the development of autonomous government in British colonies during the nineteenth century. These almost simultaneous references by tlio President and the British Ambassador to the founder of tho Republic should.soften American feeling towards England.