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Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1933, Page 5

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BRITAIN AND TJ.S.A.

MR MACDONALD’S DEPARTURE • (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) WASHINGTON, April 26. Mr Bams-’y MacDonald left Washington at noon for New York, en route to London. With the departure of Mr Ramsay MacDonald to-night, the most • important section of the so-called pre-London Conference her 0 ran he sail to hav e been concluded. Mr MacDonald uttered a farewell to-trght in a homely speech to the Pilgrims’ S°ciety at New York, jn which he made an earnest, appealing call fo.r AngloAmerican friendship. He asked for one, “not 0 f pacts and signatures, but of heart and conscience.” Seemingly the very essence of an ever-closer rap-pr-oachment .between the British and •American peoples echoed in his appeal to the two nations. He says : “A

common inspiration must implement ; common purpose.” That Mr MacDonald’s short visit t< the United States has assumed .some thing in the nature of a personal tri timph goes almost without saying. ID has always appealed t 0 th e iniagjna tion of America, and his present vish unquestionably hag intensified this appeal, Although the public is without any hard specific facts as to the exact nature |of the preliminary understanding he reached with President Roosevelt, there .nevertheless is (a full' hearted acceptance of the conclusion that he and President Roosevelt have not only unselfishly worked lor the common good, but have done 'so in a There] spirit, always acceptable to peoples and democracies-

PREMIER’S FAfREWELI SPEECH.

VISIT HAS GOOD EFFECT

NEW YORK. April ,26.

Addressing the Pilgrim (Society tonight. the British premier, Mr R. MacDonald, expressed the hope that the United States and Great Britain will sit on the same side of the tab’e at the forthcoming International Economic Conference at London in .Tune, He .said: “No greater blessing can come to the nations of the world than that Britain and America should remain an (affectionate .relations.” The Prime (Minister brde America farewell .amidst a brilliant setting and left for home on the “Berengaria” shortly before midnight. On the other side of the conference table w ( i,Ui Britain and .th e 'United ■Statois, Mr Macßbnald said, he wanted “other eiilighened nations, other nations that do appreciate their duty to individual and with courage, yet with reason, fac e those problems and produce constructive proposals for overcoming them.” He counselled America to have patience and steadiness in solving the world’s problems, especially that 0 f disarmament. He said ; “There I is no reason why we should not see that victory during our liftime.” While optimistic, Mr MacDonald emphasised that the time of th e ultimate solution of to-day’s economic problems could not be predicted. He said that another war was inevitable “unless the nations used the opportunity of a militarist peace and create a spiritual peace, and that w e engaged in trying to do so at the present moment.’’