"Good Firm Ground"

Four years of bitter war and a year of uncertain peace had passed since the battleship King George V slipped into Annapolis, carrying Lord Halifax to his new post as war-torn London's Ambassador to Washington. Last week, on the eve of homegoing and retirement, the tall, mild statesman looked into the troublous future, saw Anglo-American friendship as "a patch of good firm ground on which we can stand and be secure." Said he:

"When we feel that the times in which we live are difficult and uncertain, a good remedy is . . . to take out a map of the world 'and look at the United States and the British Commonwealth and Empire; to measure what they add up to in population, in natural resources and in industrial power; and, above all, to think what will be the effect if this massive weight is placed solidly behind U.N.

". . . I know that for myself each time this comes into my mind it fills me with new confidence for the future. For we know that the power you and we have will . . . never be directed against the rights or liberties of other peoples. . . ."

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