TAUGHT TO HATE BRITAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 171, 10 October 1927, Page 9

TAUGHT TO HATE BRITAIN

UNITED STATES SCHOOL CHILDREN APPEAL BY BISHOP OF LONDON By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Received Noon LONDON, Sunday. THE Bishop of London, the Right Hon. Right Rev. Dr. A. F. Wimnington-Ingram, preaching in St. Margaret’s, Westminster, in the presence of the American Legionaries, said he had been assured that the school children of America were not taught t olove Britain as they should, but, on the contrary, that they were taught to hate her. “This must be altered,” he asid, “because it is very serious for both the British and the American viewpoint. I believe the whole future of the world depends upon England and America keeping togther in the bonds of love, fellowship and understanding.”

“My prayer is that nothing shall ever dim the understanding, trust, and

love manifested when the American Army represen-

JrV.l ILLy i. eyi tJCjfclLLtatives were welcomed at St. Paul’s when they entered the war. N o American need think, because Britain for the purposes of protection of her trade routes needs a number of cruisers, that she wants to dominate the world. The suggestion that America wants to swallow up Canada is

At the Government dinner to the American legionaries visiting London, Dr. Howard Savage, National Com-

mander of the American Legion, expressed pride in paying tribute to a nation which knew to the bitter dregs the terrible price of pledging her honour. But for the British fidelity of purpose and tenacity in the dark days of 1914 and 1916, the Americans might never have had the honour of playing a part in the destruction of an autocratic conquest, and the preservation of democratic principles. Members of the legion were entertained by Lord Beatty, at his Surrey House. To-morrow morning they will be received by the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace, and later they will attend a luncheon given by the Lord Mayor at the Guildhall. Yesterday most of them visited, not only some of the Oxford eollegs, but also Stratford-on-Avon. The legionaries will leave Southampton on Tuesday for New York.

CLOSE FRIENDSHIP SOUGHT

SPEECH BY BALDWIN LONDON, Saturday. The Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, welcomed the members of the American Legion who are visiting England at a banquet in the Royal gallery of the House of Lords. His speech was remarkable alike for its warmth and frankness. He said: “I am proud to greet you. Your and our vocabularies do not. include the word ‘defeat.’ If your great Lincoln were alive to-day he would join me in saying that peace is harder to make than war. “I would give my very soul to-day to reproduce the spirit of brotherhood which existed in those war days. I beseech you to take back your own opinions. Do not depend upon what is written in Europe. You know the war devastation and the problems, moral a.nd material, whicHfeold world statesmen faced. You will not be impatient. You will realise that we have all had great achievements in Europe since the war. It is said that we are a. militarist people. That is utter nonsense. “Think twice before you blame those who remained to grapple with the problems from which your ancestors fled.” The President of the United States, Mr. Coolidge, was behaving like a statesman, as was expected. When Britain’s estimates were presented next spring the world would realise she had no intention of increasing her armaments. A war between Britain and the United States was unthinkable. It would destroy the whole of the civilisation worth preserving in the world to-day.—A. and N.Z.-Sun.