New Britain herald., 1929-06-20
BY THE MARCHIONESS
 TOWNSEND

World peacs, l think most right thinking people believe. is in the hands of England and America, the two great English-speaking nations. | Ever closer friendship between these two countries can best con serve the progress of white civili- zation.
 My thoughts have turned es. pecially in this direction since the town of Lynn in Massachusetts was kind enough to ask me to come over to join with them in their joy over the three-hundredth anniversary of the city's existence. 1t has led me to think that other towns in America and other towne in great Britain can have similar close ties.
 Building Common Interest As you may be aware, after the great war was over, . num- Der of British towns adopted will lages and towns in the devastated areas of France and Belgium with 1 the idea of helping them rebuild. and tide them over the first evi. days of the reconstruction period. Happily. there is no such need of such adoption by English towns of American towns, or vice versa. But there can be . sort of adop- ton which will give them some thing of q common interest. For instance, when come to Lynn. I can tell the good citizens there all about Kings Lynn, after which their place was named. And when I come back home, can tell the people of Kings Lynn all about the hustlinE. enterpris. ing American city of Lynn. There will be thus a tie or sympathetic understanding between the two places.
 Now there must be dozens and dozens of American towns which were named after British towns. this being especially so. l under stand. in the older states. If each British town and its American name sake were brought together in some way. it would help bind our two countries together. not by written treaties. not by alli- ances, not by ententes, but by means of something stronger-mu- tual understanding mutual friend ship, mutual sympathies. The people of the one town could visit the other. The schools could have pictures of the towns in the school rooms. The children of the English town could be told something about the far-away American town which was similar ly named. and vice versa. The feeling of strangeness, of remote ness. of foreignness would be abated. Each set of citizens would feel a mutual interest in the we'll being and fortunes of the other set. Understanding begets sym. pathy and sympathy begets friend- ship.
 Promoting Friendship
 feel sure that the more Ing fish people know about America and the more Americans know about England, the closer they will draw together. Our aims are very much the same. In both countries the people rule. In both the one great ambition and hope is for peace in the world. In both there is hatred of war and 2 very closs insight into the fact that there is very little glory in armed conflicts and very great deal ot sorrow and suffering and misery.
 In both countries, too. ther: is a very keen desire to g,t on with the days work. to develop the nations business. to give em- ployment to as many people as possible. to make even the hum- blest share the general prosperity that ensues when the factories are humming, the shops are busy. and the farmers finding ready mar ket for their crops. War inter. feres with all these things. Peace promotes them.
 Together we can further the ca use of peace. There is every reason in the world why We should be together. There is no question arising between our two countries. so far as l can see, that cannot be settled amiably by reasonable men possessed of patience. understanding | and insight.