Anglo-Americanism

(BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS)

What U. S. Ambassador George Harvey said to the Pilgrims about Anglo-American friendship is not likely to be forgotten easily throughout the Commonwealth. Referring to the late President Harding's speech at Vancouver last July, Mr. Harvey said: "In that speech Mr. Harding referred to the interchange of residents between America and Canada and declared: ' The ancient bugaboo of the United States scheming to annex Canada disappeared from all our minds years and years ago. Heaven knows, we have all we can manage now.'

" President Harding also said:

"' Our protection is in our fraternity. Our armor is our faith. The tie that binds more firmly year by year is the ever increasing acquaintances and comradeship, and the compact is not of perishable parchment but of fair and honorable dealing which, God grant, shall continue for all time.'

" So spoke the best beloved of all American Presidents. I need hardly add that what he said of our nearest neighbor, our very good neighbor, as he depicted her, applies with equal force, equal truth and equal sincerity to every other commonwealth of the empire, and it is not without significance that, quite naturally, President Harding speaking to Canada referred to England and America as 'your mother country across the sea and your sister country across the hardly visible border.'

"Surely I can do no better than to leave last in your minds tonight this unconscious linking together by the great American Magistrate, as of one stock and one spirit, all elements comprising our mighty race, and that I do with assurance and satisfaction, since I know the voice of our President in his last vital utterance to have been the voice of the people, of the whole people, of our great republic."