Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1921. BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2319, 23 August 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1921. BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

All the Prime Minister.-; of the Dominions contributed messages of goodwill to the American Supplement published by the London Times on July llh. Mr .Massey writes: “Looking back, as British citizens, nearly a century and a half, we now get a proper perspective of the events which resulted in the birth of the American nation, and wo are able with the friendliest feelings and most genuine sentiment to join with our cousins across the Atlantic in the celebration of their anniversary of independence. We trust that the.amicable relations which at present exist may never again be disturbed, and that the two nations, each under its own form of government, but learning from and respecting the other, may .continue to be a blessing, not only to their own citizens, but to humanity as u whole. There can be no more satisfying vision than that of the two great Eng-lish-speaking nations with a common ancestry, with the same traditions and the same ideals, moving forward in close accord, and acting up to the principle expressed by t'ne British poet: ‘They must be free or die who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spoke.”