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Mr. John Galsworthy writes as Allows I have never held s whole hearted brief for the British character. There is a lot of good in it, but much which is repellent. It has a kind of deliberate unattractiveness, set- sing out on its journey with the words: Take me or leave mą. Chis may respect a per- it's of this sort, but difficult sither to know or to Hike hin. I am told that an American officer said recently to a British staff officer in a frien.lly voice: "So we're going to clean up Brother Boche, together

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and the British staff officer re- plied: Really!" No wonder *mericans sometimes gay: "I've got no use for these fellows." The world is consecrate 10 strangeness and discovery, and the altitude of mind concreted in that "Rally!" seems auforgiv abis, till one remembers that it is mauner rather than watter which irides the hearts of American and Britn.

THE SUL.

I a huge, still half-devel ge country, where every kind of nati and type and habit comes to run

thread into the rich tapory American life and thought, prople must find it alm stimp ssible to conceive the life of a little old islami where titious persis "genovati in niter gem rating without anything to break them up; where blond re- mah sun doctored by new strains; demendur bre en scryst dlised for Inek of contrasts, and minner gets ax like a ploster umsk. Tije English manner of today, of what are calle i the clisses, is the grow hol valy a enting pe s There was probably working at all like it in the days of liza. bathr ered Charles the Second Tue Eadish mangr was stili ray when the inlaubits 19 of Virgibik, as we are toldo

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antocracy. On those lines there or any other tree, it of course is no way out of a future of bitter more than a question, but these rivalries, chicanery and wars, and peoples are all so diffent from the probable total failure of our is that we are buc, Isapp sivilisation. The only cure which But this British self-es-out sacretly to omsider ourselves I can see lies in democratising - ness is no mere fluffy ganchorie, sugerir. But between Ameri:the whole world and removing) it is our special fons of what cans and urselves ander all the present Germans would call Kaiturrences there is some shams of democracy by education Behin every manifestation of sterious deep kinshop which thought or emotion, the Britenanses us to doubt, and makes every country. Goodbye to that of the individual conscience in retails control of self. aut is as irritable, a if we were chance if Americans and Britons thinking: That's all I'll let them eatinually being tickled by fall foul of each other, refuse to re', 'even: That's all I'll let that question: Now, am I really pool their thoughts and hopes myself feel." This stoicism is better man than he? Exactly and to keep the general welfare good in its refusal to be founler what proportion of American of mankind in view. They have ed bad in that it fosters a blood at this time of day is narrow outlook; starves emotion, British I know not; but enough Set to stand together, not in spontaneity, and frank sympathy; to make us definitely cousins lestroys grace and what une may always awkward relationship describe roughly as the lovable We see in Americans a sort side of personality. The English image of ourselves; feel rear hardly ever say just what comes into their heads. What we call criticise and carp at the points As soon as peace is signed and

yet far enough, to enough, "gooi form," the apwritten law of difference. It is as though a which governs certain classes of man went out and encountered, the relaxation of restrictions the Briton; savors of the dull and in the street, what he thought allows of the free flight of aero- glacial; but there lurks within it for the moment was himself, and planes, the air service for pass * core of virtue. It has grown rouaded in his amour propre in engers, mails, parcels, and larger up like a callous shell round twe stantly began to disparage the 500ds will be greatly developed

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"ACT FOR TOURSELVES," wireless and a complete organisa- of other people; and exaltation of the maxim: "Deeds before Probably community of langu-tion for its effective use will be Words."

age rather than of blood accounts features of the schema making for our sense of kinship, fors com- for increased safety. Mr. Godfrey mon means of expression cannot Isaacs stated recently that the

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bat in defence and championship aggressive and jealous policies, of the self-governing, let live" philosophy of life.

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A Frenchman, Andre Chevril-bat mould thought and feeling Marconi Company will be prepar on, whose book, "England an into some kind of saity. Oneed to supply every aeroplane with the War," I commend to anyone can hardly over-rate the intimacy a combined wirelessand telegraph who wishes to understand British which a common literature brings installation, pader the manage peculiarities, used these words in

The American and Briton,ment of a thoroughly qualif-di a recent letter: "You English especially the British townsman operator, adopting the system are so strange to us French, you has a kind of bone-deep defiance that is now in force with regard are so utterly different from any of Fate, a readiness for anything to ships. There will be charts other people in the world." Yes! which may turn up, a dry, wry and direction finders which will We are a lonely mes. Deep in amile under the blackest sky, and give the operator the exact posi- our hearts, I think, we feel that an individual way of looking ation of the seroplane wherever it only the American people could things, which nothing can may he. Wireless stations are to ever really understand us. And shake, and Britons both, we be erected on the frontier of being extraordinarily self-con-must and will think for ourselva Cashmere and the Chinese side scious, perverse, and prowl, and know why we do a thing of Siberis. The machinery will We do onr beat to before we do it. We have that be carried across China without hide from American that we have ingrained respect for the in wheel, for there is neither rail- any such feeling. It would die-ividual conscience which is away nor road.. Mr. Isaacs has treas the average Briton to confess the bottom of all free institutions. arranged with Mr. Handley Page that he wanted to be understood, Some years before the war as for the transport by one or more had anything so natural as a intelligensand cultivated Austriacf his biz aeroplanes. The oraving for fellowship or for who had lived long in Englan journey inland will occupy two being liked. There is something was asked for opinion of the three days, in place of the touching and terrifying about our British In many ways," he came number of months ander aharacter about the depth ata, "I think you are inferior to ordinary conditions. which it keeps its real yearnings, da; but one great thing I have about the perversity with which noticed about you which we have

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