New-York tribune., 1921-09-13
.Anglo-American
Bar Union Is
Urged by Simon
Would Be Potent Force
for Worldwide Peace
and Friendship, Asserts
the Great English Jurist
Pays Tribute TO Lawyers
Tells City Association They
Must Join Statesmen to
Eliminate War Causes

Union of the bar of Great Britain
and Canada with that of the United
States not only for the purpose of
further cementing Anglo-American
friendship, ''but also as a potent force
for the preservation of world peace"
was advocated last night by Sir John
A. Simon, K. c., formerly the British
Home Secretary and now leader of the
bar in England, in an address made be-
fore members of the Association Of the
Bar of the City of New York at the
association rooms, AZ West Forty
fourth Street.
His speech won the unstinted praise
of his auditors, and when he had ended
he was unanimously voted an honorary
membership in the association The
reception to him in the association
rooms terminated a months holiday
tour he has been making in the United
States He will sail for England on
the Aquitania.
To Preach Angio-American Arity
Just before making his address he
said to reporters:
"I have had the most marvellous re-
ception in America that any Engllsn-
man could wish for. When | return
to England | intend TO devote a large
part of my time to preaching Anglo
| American friendship. | Will tell my
countrymen that it is the duty OF every
EngIishman to come to America al
some time in his life to see for him
self how magnificent America is as
country and how great the American
people are as q race
Speaking Of the fraternity of the law
he said that he knew of no prote sslon
"where there is less jealousy, backolt-
ing and greed" that it is capable OF
being "an immense force for the eX-
pressing of informed opinion at times
of crisis" and that it was largely re-
snonsibIe for the establishment of the
liberties which the people of the United
States and England now enjoy
"The bar associations of the Unltea
States. Canada and Great Britain might
be made one of the most potent factors
in the development of Anglo-Amerlcan
friendship" he continued.
"The things at which you are arrly-
ing in your law here we are arriving
at across the sea, because our law is
based upon the same principles and
NAV be traced to common fount. The
bar of England and that of America
possess an actual hands across the
sea- and not only possess the power
greatly to further an Anglo-Amerlcan
entente, but also that Of being tre-
mendous factor for the progress ano
peace Of the world.
Says World is Sick of War
"It is in our hands, quite as mucf
as in those of our statesmen or th'
press, to make q great contribution a
this time for the world peace. Tn,
world is sick of war. AS Grant said
Let US have peace
"If the lawyers of our countries, who
preserve the ideal view of the prin
ciplcs, progress and traditions of the
two nations, would devote themselves
I to that task with the same fervor with
which our soldiers laid down their lives
in France, such occasions as these would
in the future not be but passing Incl
dents, but indications of our work to-
gether in saving the world from future
misery of mutual destruction
Sir John is the fourth person to be
! elected an honorary member of the