“AMERICA IS SOUND."

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2302, 14 July 1921, Page 1

“AMERICA IS SOUND."

Mr Baiubridge Colby, a former Secretary of State of the Ini ted States, was tlie guest of the American Luncheon Club in London recently. After referring to “the sense of relationship, the sense of continuity, the consciousness of descent that all genuine and true Americans feel when they came to the soil of old England,” Mr Colby said: —“What a fortunate thing it is that Anglo-American relations continue on the lines of solid and immutable friendship—fortunate for this generation, and full of hopeful augury for all future generations. I observe much public discussion of the relations between our peoples, and now and then a suggestion that* there is something fragile in our ancient amity. Perish the unfounded thought, I say. British and American friendship is the sturdiest fact which exists to-day in the field of international relations. True, we differ now and then, but how often it turns out on examination and analysis that we differ only as to why wc agree. And the unhesitating and outspoken way in which our discussions are conducted is after all a fine tribute to the deep respect wo feel for each other’s motives, policy and purposes. Such relations between great nations can never he strained. They may be enlivened on occasion, but they can never be imperilled!” In conclusion, *Mr Colby said: —“America is sound. Her intentions arc good. Her past performances are not discreditable. Her future performances may he awaited ’with confidence. America feels her responsibilities. She respects and admires her late Allies in the war. She has difficulties of her own. She asks no help in their solution, but only a little patience in the time“of their solution, the clarification of her vision, the rectification of her errors, and the redemption of her pledges may require."