The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-21
CEDDES TALKS
PUBLISHERS
MAKING INTERNATIONAL RELA-
TIoNS LARGELY IN HANDS OF
NEWSPAPERMEN SAYS BRIT
ISH AMBASSADOR.

future is largely in the hands of the
newspapermen of America and the
British Empire. Sir Auckland Geddes,
British Ambassador to the United
States, declared today in an address
at the annual meeting Of the South
ern Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton.
The hope of mankind that the last
great war has been fought, Sir Auck-
land said, could be turned by the
newspaper writer's of the English
speaking world either to cruel mock
cry or advance toward realization.
Mutual understanding between the
British commonwealth Of nations
and the United States matters more
to the English speaking people and to
the world than anything else at the
present time, Sir Auckland declared,
because without understanding there
can be no friendship and without
friendship there can be no coopera-
ton.
Would it be in your interest,
would it be less costly for you to eff
feet the expansion of your foreign
trade, in the teeth of British opposi-
tion?" asked the Ambassador. Would
it pay you less if you effected it in
reasonable cooperation with us?
Would it cost you less to build a navy
commensurate to your needs in oppo-
sition to us or more in agreement
with us? Would it help you to find
difficulties largely of your own Gre
alton or reactions to your actions in
Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
South Africa, in India and in every
land in which the British flag flies
as we'll as in every land in which the
Prifiah fradar does h1JSinpSa and the
British banks have branches? Would
it harm you to find friends there and
have to meet only the sort of COM
petition that exists between rival con-
Germs of the same nationality? On the
lowest basis, would it pay you if
Britain were to develop cotton grow
ing on a great scale in her African
territories because of a sense of in
stability created by feeling of Amer
lean lack of friendliness? Would it
help you toward q solution of your
problems in the Pacific if Australia
were to become hostile to your in
terests?
"On the other side would it help
us to be unfriendly to you? Again
on the lowest basis would it pay us =?
The answer in every case is no
"Then we have the great political
and socio economic problems which
require neutrality-suspicious. as wide as
the world and as deep as the human
heart. Will they be helped if you and !
we are unfriendly and pickering with |
one another? Will it help you or us
if large areas of the world lapse from
civilization to standardization be-
cause you and we fail to cooperate
with one another and with the ma
tions whose social existence is threat |
ened with economic chaos in which |
they find themselves? I know of no |
good which can flow from lack of |
friendship between our nations. |
know of no human good which might |
not be gained for ourselves and for |
the world by your and our cordial |
cooperation with one another.
Here is the problem: Cooperation |
which is urgently needed between us /
is only possible on a basis of friend !
ship and friendly trust Information
al friendship is only possible on a bal
sis of mutual respect and under |
standing.
you gentlemen and all of your pro-
fession have it in your POWER, as have |
no others, to foster that respect and |
understanding between the nations. |
Practically everybody reads some |
bound books. A mere handful studies |
history. On you and nyour fellows |
throughout the English speaking |
world the burden is laid. BY force of |
circumstances, by the making of the |
international relations of the future. |
The hope of mankind that the last |
great war has been fought could be
turned by you either to cruel mockery |
or advance toward realization.
with all the earnestness at my |
command beg you in the name of all |
who like myself are devoting their
lives othe furtherance of the cause |
of international peace to enroll VOL
UNFAIRLY in the army of the interna-
tional peace makers. Try with all |
your skill and arts to make the ma
tions realize their common essential
humanity. Let them see each other
as they are, groupings of plain, SIM
pie people who love and hate and fear
and live and die very much the same
way in all the countries whose civil
iZation is based on Europe.
Get them to see that civilization
is indissolubly linked at it's founda-
ton with the Christian ethic-other
civilizations were not and are not,
but ours is and assumes in all it's
customs and conventions a fair dis
tribution of effective Christianity
among the people. Get your read
ers to realize how civilization has
been advanced by the genius Of the
few whose life works have benefited
the many without regard to national
frontiers.
Rich and precious is our heritage,
but We hold only a life rent in our
possession. 1t belongs to our chill
dren and to theirs and to the unnum-
bered generations of the future.
eff you and we stand firm together
the heritage will be safe, even though
the world we have known should
crumble around us, but if the I'M
speakable horror of conflict should
arise between us the heritage will be
destroyed. You who mold the public
thought are the most influential of