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BRITAIN AND U.S.A.
Amity Unimpaired
JEFERENCE to Anglo-American
relations were made by the Brit
ish Foreign Secretary (Sir Austen
Chamberlain) and the American Am
bassador in Britain (Mr A. B. Hough-
ion) at a dinner at Birmingham on
Sat urdny.
Mr Houghton, who first expressed
the deep thankfulness felt in America
that King .George was now appar
ently on the high road to recovery,
referred to the ancient ties of friend
ship hetween Britain and the United
States and the goodwill, which needed
no discussion and remained funda
mentally unimpaired.
Traditional Policy
Sir Austen Chamberlain, speaking
of the great extent to which Anglo-
American relations were discussed in
Britain, said: —
"I thinx tne reason is not that
these relations are impaired, but that
we are peculiarly sensitive a.s a
people to anything which even seems
to deviate from the close and warm
friendship which is the traditional
policy of every British Government,
and which it is the fundamental
desire of our people to maintain with
the United States."
There "was, he said, only one dif
ference which the two Governments
had encountered — how they should
apply the limitation of naval arma
ments fairly and justly to their dif
ferent circumstances and conditions.
"But."' lie continued, "it is impor
tant to observe that the difference
between us even then was not a
difference of principle. We admit
freely and willingly the parity be
tween the United Slates' forces and
our own.
"It is an admission which we have
never made to any other nation,
which we should have made to no
other nation, and such differences as
have occurred have, therefore, not
been differences of principle but
merely differences arising out of the
difficulties of applying that principle
to the very different circumstances
- and needs of our two countries.
\ v Will Be Resolved
"It Is inconceivable that, With pa-
- lience find' at the proper and oppor-
nSprttefft, friends should not be
Ifikltiei'j'-txi'' ''resolve technical difficulties
JiitheHo, prevented them
siofainv»greenient.
scattered Empire
ilbran&tjona which pass across oceans.
-'-is a compact na-
tion upon a continent separated by
the ocean from the troubles, pas
sions, hatreds and prejudices of the
old world, and is self-supporting,
self-contained and independent.
"Between their circumstances and
ours there is an immense gulf fixed
by history and geography. The prob
lem is to find 'some conclusion by
which we can measure naval Btreugth
so that the parity, which both na
tions desire, may be,, reached at a level
which will produce 'not an increase In
the armaments of the world, but' a
reduction."
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