AMERICAN TRIBUTE
NO GUARDS ON BORDER UNITY OF SENTIMENT EMPHASISED. “GOOD NEIGHBOUR” MORE THAN A NAME. (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) NIAGARA, June 7. The “Buffalo Times,” in the first souvenir edition ever published by an American newspaper for visiting Royalty, said: “Today, for the first time' in history, the reigning monarchs of the British Empire have set foot on the. soil of the United States. They
won’t pass any border guards. None of the decorations we hang out for them will be there temporarily to conceal frontier barriers. They won’t pass any Maginot or Siegfried lines. The only military they will see will be there only for show and to honour them. We think they will find us talking about much the same things, and thinking in much the same way, as the people they have been visiting during the past couple of wfieks. We think they will detect in us the same unyielding love of human liberty that marks their own people. They may find our curtsies a little bit stiff, but when they shake our hands we shall be offering the same sincere friendship with which they have been welcomed to their own Dominion. They will find that this country and their’s are good neighbours and that “good neighbour” is more than a phrase.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1939, Page 8
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217AMERICAN TRIBUTE Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1939, Page 8
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