TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 408, 17 December 1932, Page 2

TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN

AMERICA'S IMPRESSIONS OF COUNTRY'S STRENGTH AND COURAGE. A tribute to Britain and a reminder of our great resources emerged from an address given last night by Mr. Gharles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation of America. At a meeting of the British Institute of Fuel in London, which awarded him the Melchett Medal, he said: "The success of Britain in the war did not depend on the efforts of any individual or any party. Britain's great defence under all circumstances is the staying power of the British people. This 'enduring character is the bedrock of her advance to greater heights as civilisation moves forward. "Honour, courage, persistence, and generosity are characteristics of your nation, giving it a strength which is impregnable. "Justice compels me to say that our industry continues to bow to' Great Britain in many aspects, of scientific leadeirship, Your societies have a thoroughness, and a high standard of operation which form a measuring rod for industrial progress in all countries. "There is a great danger in times like these of getting into a blue funk. We have in the world to-day the great resources which' always existed. We have to a greater degree than ever the knowledge of how to utilise those resources. "Our diffieulties to-day have not been with the lack of essential wealth, but in the dislocation of economic machinery. We have emerged from our diffieulties before and shall do so again, advancing to ever higher standards of well-being."