AMERICA’S ISOLATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1921, Page 5

AMERICA’S ISOLATION.

AGAINST ALLIANCES IN ARMS. FRIENDSHIP WITH BRITAIN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Oct. 20, 7.20 p.m. New York, Oct. 19. Speaking at the Yorktown celebration of the anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, in the revolutionary war, President Harding announced America’s unequivocal opposition to becoming a party to any alliance in arms or submerging its nationality to a world sovereignty. He declared that one need not picture a world sovereignty, because it will never be. We believe there is urgent need for bringing the best thought of all the great peoples into an understanding in a cooperative endeavor which shuns alliances in arms and strengthens the concords of peace. The president declared that liberal opinion throughout the world benefited by the American revolution. Inevitably it brought Britain and America to a policy of accommodation and pacific adjustment for all differences, until to-day it finds the United States and Britain naturally arrayed together in trusteeship, preserving civilisation. A future breach of peaceful and friendly relations was unthinkable.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.