BRITAIN & AMERICA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1941, Page 6

BRITAIN & AMERICA

NEED OF CLOSE UNION IN WORLD LEADERSHIP AFTER WAR. ADDRESS BY SIR C. NEWALL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The opinion that the English-speak-ing peoples, with their ideals and traditions. were better fitted than any others to lay the foundation of a new world order after the war, was expressed by the Governor-General. Sir Cyril Newall, addressing the EnglishSpeaking Union in Wellington yesterday afternoon. “The world at the moment is, to put it roughly, in a frightful mess,” said Sir Cyril. “Destruction and desolation are cn all sides. We are assailed by the powers of evil. But we are going to win. When the war is finished someone will have to build a new world out of the chaos which must inevitably result from the present conflict. We must be concerned about who is going to do that work in the interests of humanity. I say that the British people, and people with their ideas and traditions, are the people to do it. . . . “We, as a nation, are not dictators. Our people are allowed to worship God in the way they please. They have freedom of thought and freedom of speech. I am convinced, therefore, that the people of the British Commonwealth of Nations are in a position to lay the most secure and most lasting foundations for a new world.

“We have our faults, as everyone has—faults that engender hatred and call for forgiveness. But, if we realise them and endeavour to overcome them, there is no harm done. FUNDAMENTAL AGREEMENT. “The English and the American people have a common heritage. They have language, law, traditions and ideals in common. Exactly as the American people find things they don’t like in England, so we find things we don’t like in America. But we ar' the same people fundamentally in our outlook. God knows we have to be thankful for what they are doing for us now in America. “We two peoples should, therefore, get together in the closest possible union. The closer that union now, the closer will be the bond that will unite our children, to whom, at no long distant time, we will all have to hand over everything that we hold as sacred and to be cherished. Thus will be created a great force on sound traditions to build up a new world. “We have a responsibility after this crisis, and a responsibility now to see that our children are so educated that they will be able to face the task of reconstruction that must fall on their shoulders.”

Movements such as the EnglishSpeaking Union would help to fit the post-war generation for its task, said Sir Cyril in conclusion. He expressed the hope that the union would form a national headquarters, which, he be-' lieved, would help to extend the influence of the organisation.