BRITAIN & AMERICA

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1929, Page 6

BRITAIN & AMERICA

HOW TO BE FRIENDLY. LONDON,. July 18. General Dawes, the American Ambassador, as the principal guest at a luncheon given by the Travel Association of Great Britain and Ireland, gave a vigorous speech on the subject of Anglo-American relationship. The American Ambassador said he received a great deal of advice before coming to England as to his conduct in the position of ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, and the advice which he received most was not to make speeches. He thought that probably the best way of endearing himself to the people here would be to refrain from speech-making. Therefore, he started out with a determination not to make any speeches. This was only his sLtli—(Laughter.) One thing that impressed him was that it was not the peculiar type of mankind which travelled which was, after all, the best form which to judge the character or the people. The traveller who came here from America and the traveller who went to America for a short time wore too apt to be influenced by repercussions in connection with little incidents that might happen. He might wake up with a touch oi dyspepsia and might be treated during the morning meal in a way that did not accord with his dignity -and, if approached by a correspondent, he might attempt to appraise the attitude of a great people. The ideal of the Travel Association was to bring the great peoples together in mutual friendship and mutual understanding. So far as lie was concerned, he was proceeding on that basis.—(Cheers.) During two years of war he got to know England as anyone diving here a lifetime might know it. The whole situation was saved by the self-sacrificing generosity of the English Government and the English Army. HUMAN NATURE. As a business man—for he was not a diplomatist—he offered a few practical suggestions. The methods of their organisation should be adjusted not to human reasoning, but to human nature. He had received an invitation from the Mayor of Sudbury to go uiiere and receive the freedom of the town. Sudbury was where his people came from centuries ago. That invitation appealed to him;, It touched something in his heart. He wanted' to. go to Sudbury, where his people came from, and it occurred to him that what their society wanted to do was lo follow on the lines of that human call. If Britain got visits from the American Smiths Joneses, and Macdonalds they would have to sell off a small portion of their island.—(Laughter). People who became well enough off to travel wanted to-see their beginnings. They wanted to keep those great peoples in touch; not to help them to be friendly but to prove that they were friendly. They heard too much about getting good relations between England and America. If they got good relations between travellers they would get a better feeling between the .two countries. The voice of America was the voice of the mass of the American people, and not of selfappointed critics, 'censors, and eulogists. He recalled that when he landed in Liveipool with his regiment during the war, a man was selected to make them feel at home. Not that they felt timid, but they came as strangers. They could not patronise the Englishman or the American. They must remember, if they wanted to get along, that they were of the same source. At their keyjoints and . places of historical interest they should have people who were instructed to make strangers feel at home, and they should be selected because God made them friendly people. (Cheers).

ever for the next mile there was a progressive rise until the maximum of over 16ft was reached. During the next one and a half miles there is a fall to 13ft 9in, hollowed by an abrupt rise to a foot higher. At White's Creek where the 'fault lies, the end of the uplift was reached and the ground level falls back' to normal.

The general effect therefore, has been that one or more geological blocks of land took up the movement engendered down below and were tilted and perhaps rotated slightly as well. The inclined plain thus formed is towards the east, the western boundary (the White Creek fault) showing the maximum elevation.