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understand the ANGLO-AMERICA RELATIONS. temp: us to preparation for simi- 1 can clearly

la contiuued exercise. The peo-anxiety with which Grest ple of the United States, on the Britain looked for the entry of the United States into the recent war. Psychologically the reason is clear.

NEED OF AN ALLIANCE Oy other hand, have always and con- tinually been in world contact. SENTIMENT.

Their Government they have not Writing in the Times American Permit:ed to enter the arana of world conflict hertofore, nor have number, Mr. Job E Hedger sags"Hands across the sea is they adequately manned it in no longer a hope and oratorical system or men to serve best there stimulant. The ssa has been own interests abroad. How then crossed. Hands have gripped, could we be expected to know The Britisher and American have and appreciate, on the instant, been sentimentally welded orthey world conditions to their solution have nol. If they have no: ic and reverse a psychology which fact been welded, consciously or had crystallized into fixed habit? subconsciously, they never will WE WILL BEAR OUR SYARE.

bad

From preconceived habits of mind it was unthinkable that could be the United States thrown into a war in Europe and undertake what later developed. We had been so fortunate hereto fore, that belief in our luck bad become a passion. The Govero- ment at Washington, whatever may have been its official attitude, was in no position in the begin- be more so than at present. 1 And yes the United States willing to act until our people at large bad become conscious of formal contract between the bear her part in the future as a Governments of Great Britain world Power as she has borne her and vitalized by the developing be permanently effected uales since the colonies became States consciousness of conditions de and the United States can never haman part in the past. Notama painting irresistably to our participation. The instant the people of the two countries and those States merged

veloped, that instant preparation, have An

admitted, common into a nation have the Americans gigantic and effective, developed, sentimental alliance. To rely on withheld sympathy or succour

The people then realized what such contract without the other from suffering and distress. No

student the philosophic condition might destroy the other part of the globe marked by known, namely, that the attack condition and make the contract famine, fatality, or devastation by Germany on Belgium was in itself a subject of disintegrating exists to which she has not santanbetance an attack on ourselves, contention. The actust, vital succour, a helping hand, sym-because the declared necessities question is-Can Great Britain paths, and uplifting contribution. of the assault were a declaration and the United States be driven This has been broadly speaking of war against American ideals apart? I do not believe they can

personal And not officially The be permanently divided.

national. In due course accord- welfare of the world requires that

ing to her institutions, in her own they should not be. Thoughtful way, gradually learned, increas- men and women. English-speakingly appreciated, she will play ing so-called, bave thus a common her part without dependence oa purpose and. commandment, promoters or reliance on stage AMERICA NOT TO BE HURRIED. Offical differences may arise and

So it is with the days following| managers as foreign to her own our peoples bave misunderstand-

as she is to them. The war has the conclusion of the war. The ings from misconceptions of facts

not created as many new tend-American people are viewing or failure of proper paychologicalcies as it has disclosed older slowly and carefully the resetting

each other's

ones heretofore unappreciated of a world stage. They are dis- characters. Bilts are not rents except by the clearly observing cussing with themselves their Admitted fundamentals, bred student. Seither before the war own characteristics and adapts- well as titaliz. will be the

nor since can virtue be monobilities. their duties and respon- determining fattor

nalised nar dishonesty pass as sibilities, and gradually evolving coin of the realm.

a world vision. They cannot be Comman sense and communhurried. They cannot instactly honesty speak the same language reverse their habits and traditions. and worship at the same alır. They cannot make theisselves And yet there will alwags ba

over on the instant.

There is no more alert minded omenar starting a new sect or setting up a strange altar. The people in the world than the

They temporal passion for spiritual Americans.

sometimes leadership is as old as human lif-jumpa:conclusions. They some- and will only terminate with times ac: too quickly. They death.

analysis

The British and American, statesman-er orator, frequently

men".

not

speaking internationally for sume consumption, need cause ne ther indignation. estrange. eastinging anger. Neither Briton nor American can to driven. They can be pers and ed. As threat is a shorter word than persuasion, its result, too. is shorter lived and less efficient View for a moment our comman history, keeping in mind a similar ancestry

The

The man or nation without committed error does not exist. The problem is to avoid the re petition of error and practice virtue without loss of time in bragging about it. Nothing is to be accomplished by continually striving to develop new conditions until what has bren of valus 'D the past has been secured ant made the foundation on which The later structure shall be

prected.

prepare The

and form of government. The moment Americans felt they were attacked, they threw them.. selves into the midst of the conflict.

sometimes err in judgment. Their later contemplations and reflec tions, their deliberations and final rature conduct make for good and the solution of great problems. By contract the British. with fixed national paychology. the product of centuries, is slower, more deliberate, and apt to be! more thorough, and in the end Coroa Gat

prodact

similar mental

THE REAL AMERICAS REVOLUTION. British and American peoples have never been at war, In our Revolution the American people fought British officialdom represented by a hired army. Th real resolution was by the British

Many an American election people from theit. Government

has been affected by interjecting compelling it to acknowledge it-

Great Britain into Our discus- the ineficiency by recalling

OUR JOIST BESPONSIBILITY.

sions. Often the people of Great hired arms. The colonists did

It is unimportant which nation Britain have been affected by not defeat the English. They did did the most to win the war being told what the American compel the English to admi' Great Britain. France, the Unit-people were thinking and doing. officially that the colonists were ed States, Italy, Belgium, or some Each of these circumstances unconquerable. This they were other ally. It.is worth while to would have been silly bad not the because they had inherited and discuss whether each each did all lack of truth been so effective in! lived common principles of it could, and by lessons learned creating results. justice, fairness, and due self-

for the future.

My contribution to the Fourth respect.

intentional promoter of When England in substance discord between Great Britain of July" issue is that Great Britain and the United States deserted and cast adrift her and the United States is a com- should start with the assumption American colonies, they began a mon enemy to the peace of the that they have a sentimental national life with similar food world. Through one of my for kinship that they have melted amental characteristics, increas bears I trace an English ancestry,

into joint responsiblities by the ingly modified by geographical while I can trace also to a sigue. fire heat of war, and that we will conditions, physical surround-of the Declaration of Independ- ings, and climatic influence. As ence. I would be less an Ameri-save time by frowning upon word or act which shall divide us. On England is actually divided from can than I deem myself to ba the European continent by the were I unable to recognize the the declaration day of American Channel, so is the United States sturdy strength of Great Britain independence I cannot drink to more completely divided physi- while conscious of the strength the health of Great Britain, but can offer her a smile. There are cally from England and Europe,of my own country. We can well Yet all have proper and natural overlook the idiosyncrasies of some things the constitution of United States probibits and points of contact whether in in- each other in the endeavour to tellectual or commercial competi-live up to our own common ideal preventa. It can neither prevent tion. The enemy attack bridged The Briton and American should nor prohibit good temper and the Channel and spanned the be, always necessarily will be, in good wishes. Atlantic

active competition in multitudin The United States, broadly our ways. That this struggle for speaking, has no international betterment may be carried on history or context, as contrasted with a keen sense of joint re-

The Press Association is in- with the older nations In the sponsibility for world welfare in place of International experience, as necessary as it is to square formed by the Canadian Expedi with settled diplomatic policy, we proclaimed virtue with coocrste tionary Force Exchange Fund

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20,000 that B009 Americans have lived our world conduct. Hfe at home, without impelling Whenever the United States ex-Canadian soldiers now resident fear of enemy attack or planning cannot properly appreciate the in the British Isles are about to action against the territorial acquirement. Apart part Great Britain has played in bring an from the recent war, our real the progress of the world, and Canadian Government in order conflict was at home in the re- Great Britain cannot admit the to obtain arrears of army pay bellion. Our other conflicts were progress of the Grest Republic as which they claim are due on imbroglice which disclosed a world force, it will be time for account of the decreased rate of conscious strength but did not thoughtful men to take counsel, exchange.

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