BRITAIN AS CREDITOR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 140, 3 September 1927, Page 1

BRITAIN AS CREDITOR

AMERICA’S ETERNAL DEBT LAV/ AND GOVERNMENT By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright BUFFALO, Thursday. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Mr. W. H. Taft, welcomed the Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord Hewart, who spoke at a meeting of the American Bar Association. Mr. Taft said that America owed Britain for her law and her form of government, a debt that could never be repaid. “The happiness which we enjoy in our liberties comes

from the representative character of our popular institutions, as we derive them from England,” said Mr. Taft. “Our progress without this would have been impossible, and any departure from it in

the future will be full of danger.” Judge Taft “Our problems have been somewhat different and their variations have required some changes in governmental structure, but the origin and essence of it must be traced directly to our English descent. The strength and character of the English people which developed under that representative form of government should continue to be our inspiration. “The model of the British administration of justice is exemplified Wherever the British flag floats. Its equity, efficacy and despatch should stimulate us to the improvement and reform of our methods of procedure so that we may preserve the happiness of our own Commonwealth by maintaining liberty effectively regulated by law.” —A. and N.Z.