AMERICA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10613, 11 June 1920, Page 6

AMERICA

AN AUSTRALIAN’S VIEW NEED FORTtLLIANCE AVITH ADSTHE PACIFIC PERIL. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright SYDNEY, Juno 10. Mr Cornforth, managing director of tho Vacuum Oil Company, who has returned from a six months’ visit to the United States, deprecates the Australasian opinion -that “America did not care a'fig for the League of Nations.” Ho found the United States did care, but objected to tho inclusion of the clause in the League which would inevitably embroil the United States in war in Europe. Mr Cornforth declared that President AA ilson was tho hest-hated man in America. There was no chance of his being relumed at the Presidential elections. Regarding the Pacific, Mr Cornforth found that influential American opinion favoured an alliance between Australasia, and America, in view of their common peril. There the menace is considered a very live one indeed, and America looks for some move on tho part of Australia and New Zealand towards a union having for its- -.object mutual protection against potential dangers in Pacino waters. A source of wonder among Americans was that Australia and New Zealand failed to arrange direct exchange with America, instead of paying 15 per cent, extra for goods, owing to exchange, through London. Industrially and commercially tho United States was in a state of_ great unrest. Extremely hard' times were ahead, chiefly as tho result of the tightening of tho money market, scarcity of raw material, and the shortage of labour.