Show j m AUCKlAND f PAYS PAY t 11 i U UJ II SI J TRIBUTE IB lf SFA h eo J N w. w k- k British Amb Ambassador Re Relates lates lates' Causes of ot Past S Friction s 1 P o March 12 Sir 12 Sir Auckland dues Ides l tlc O newly appointed ambas- ambas t art the orthe United States made his rei it t speech today oday since his appoints appoint appoint- r s ot nt wa was wag announced addressing a ae t ge e c gathering in n hIs honor at the Luncheon club The Amern Amer- Amer n ambassador ambassador Q John Jotin D Davis pre pre- I r ed Tir it r Auckland spoke poke of f. f the charac- charac f i stirs of the American and English plc and and the essentiality of binding y v together Referring to to the i ij r Nu-ases Nu rh ases Our American cousins cousIns and and and j ff BlOOd s 's thicker than water the they I II y 1 ls ad r said he felt at first that l. l r. r 1 was dealing with a great lliza cl f h r t on which seemed different from all I ib had d I me met met- until the crust crust w was Avas s t 1 oven and and I found myself among among r I E ipie i understand He continued 7 i BOTH BOND t. t BOND AND BARRIER i l cure cure for for such ills as exist is l m r s sure re frankly to recognize that l. l c iVi Common language is at once a j bond ond and Jand a b barrier and to work to I f its binding power and I i. i weaken w alen its separating influence It I roan n be done one but It is not the work of ofa tr r a Q day or a year i y The Englishman who saw his best t tit r lii off ott with an American soldier or I i sailor is Is going to continue braying f 1 t that n he dislikes Americans which is z i not what shat he really means at all What i he Ie really mens Is I I dislike seeing f r my girl irl Irl take any notice of another i 4 male I SPECIMENS MISLEAD I What we all want more consPIcuously o sh to realize Is that can can- j pot lOt of be judged by a a few chance sped sped- s v KL ens of their citizens They must bey be fee y judged by t the e expression of th their lr coll coli col- col e tl e will made manifest h in hours j l' l ca VMS of crisis Judge Britain by her action ac- ac tion as a nation during the war wat durIng during during dur dur- ing if you will one month of the war April war va r Ap April 1918 and 1918 and I think no Briton or friend of Britain need be ashamed of ot his citizenship or his friendship I TRIBUTE TO AMERICA J Judge dge America by her a action when she she into the whole whole- came war her wholehearted hearted heart d and instantaneous of comp compulsory military service and and even more striking the the- voluntary voluntary- r rationing of the Use of or food and fuel in hi mil mil- Hops of ot households and I 1 think no American or friend of or America need I be other than han proud of or his citizenship or ot are his friendship W ese hese are the eat signs of the pure pur gold sold of unselfish idealism In inna national na- na souls souls and long after the h hysterical hys hys- ster s- s ter al shouting and and ex exaggerations have pas passed ed away long aft after after- the f. f the false generations have been exposed and their thel falseness recognized recognized- the ultimate essential verity the capacity to forget torget self self in the service of of a common Ide ideal l will bind our nations In a yoke of ot service to mankind |