AMERICA TO-DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1920, Page 8

AMERICA TO-DAY.

A, VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS. Bf Seljfgrapa.—Prtsi Asm—Cownght Sydney, June 10. Mr. Comforth, managing director of the Vacuum Oil Co., has returned from «ix ffloatba' -visit to the United States. ' So deprecated the Australasian opinion ' that America did not care a fig for the • Leigue of Nations. He. found she did ' care, but objected to the inclusion of the ' clause in the League which would inevitably embroil the United States in • war in Europe. ~„..,. -', Mr. Comforth declared that President ■Wilson was the best-hated man in America, and had ho chance of being returned at the Presidential elections. * Regarding the Pacific he found influential American opinion favored an * alliance ■ between Australasia and . America. >n view of their common peril 'there. The menace wis considered a very live one indeed, and Americans , j looked for some move on the part of 'Australia and New Zealand toward: 1 union, thaving for its object mutual protection against potential dangers in Pacific watern. A source of wonder among Americans Wa*. that Australia and Xew Zealand bad failed to arrange for direct exchange with America, instead of paying 15 per ■ cfyU extra-,for goods owing to exchange through" London. Industrially and commercially the trite* State?; was in a state of great 'linrert. , Extremely hard times were ahead, chiefly as the result of the tight•eMnrftJt the money market, the scarcity .afT-raw material, and the shortage of - I '.'..Jahtf!—Aw.-N.Z-.'' Cable Assn.