ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONSHIP.
“Co-operation between governments in the organisation of peace will he successful only if there is a greater understanding of the one nation by the other than exists at present. School histories in America used to make Great. Britain the villian of the piece; and probably the anti-Rritish feeling in China was due partly to the effect, if these school histories upon the mind of Chinese students in America, who saw Great Britain chiefly as the enemy of American studies in' the days ol George Washington. The better historians in the United States are now striving to correst the false impression left on the minds of the young by a fantastic melodrama of the American revolution. But over here, too, we aie not blameless. Our schools and univer sitit., do not give sufficient attention to the growth of American civilisation And besides—it is a controverted point Wo misrepresent America as America used to misroporsent us. And if we learn more, we shall, T believe, find positive policies upon which the two nations can agree for the promotion (if peace in the whole world. Dr. Delisle Burns, ill the “Glasgow Herald.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1929, Page 8
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191ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONSHIP. Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1929, Page 8
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