A.B.C. to some people, I suppose, suggests D.E.F. and the
rest ; to others restaurants ; to others railway-trains ; to others three Latin- American republics. But the letters have lately attained a new and very meritorious connotation. They represent the American and British Commonwealth Association, formed in the United States to promote friendship between the Union and British Common- wealth States in a number of very practical ways, not least important being the organisation of letters of correction to American newspapers which, wittingly or otherwise, make inaccurate statements about this country or any of the Dominions. Founded by Mr. Eric Underwood, well known on this side of the Atlantic, A.B.C. has enlisted the support of many of the most respected citizens of the American Union. It entertains British (in the widest sense) visitors, it arranges meetings for them, and—a singularly interesting enterprise—it has distributed stones and lead from our destroyed House of Commons to the legislatures of nearly all the American States, where such relics are accepted with genuine appreciation. Altogether the new A.B.C. deserves our warmest gratitude, and I hereby record mine.
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