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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1939, Page 3

One of the things that surprised him was that Americans were not ■'British'' in outlook, but this was understood when one remembered that the population of the United States was composed of a great many elements, said Mr J. E. Strachan, principal of the Rangiora High School, in an address to the Canterbury Chapter of the New Zealand Institute of Secretaries, on his recent lour abroad. He expressed admiration of the part America was playing in building a new civilisation, and in adjusting social customs to the new technological environment. England, to his mind, impressed the visitor because of the impression he gained of something enduring. There appeared to be great business prosperity. In Germany. Mr Strachan said he found that he had to readjust his previous ideas. He said that if Hitler had done nothing else he had given young Germans a motive, which they were sadly lacking previously, being born as they were after the Great War. and suffering the repercussions of that war although in no way responsible for it.