Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-04-30
ENGLISH STILL TALK
OF AN ALLIANCE.
They Think Our Intervention In Cuba
Opens the Way For Vigorous and
Far-Reaching Foreign Policy.

Ear-h eachins FoTeign 1olicy.
NEW YORK, April 30.-The Ivening
Posts London correspondent cal. les to
that paper as follows:
'Mr Balfour is being sharply criti-
cized, especially in Radical quarters, for
his seemingly curt, half ironical answer
IN the house of commons respecting
Anglo American relations, and The
Times thinks it necessary to publish a
long dispatch from its Washington cor
respondent expressing Mr.. Mckinley's
panied surprise at newspaper tales of
changing English opinion.
''Yet it would be quite mistake to
assume from Mr.. Baltour's reply that
Lord Salisbury, Mr.. Balfour and the
ministry generally are unsympatnetic
towards the movement of Anglo-Amer-
lean accord, of which evidences are not
less abundant here than in the states.
Il have the best reason to know that
Ministers here await with the keenest
interest the development OF the line OF
Anglo American cooperation they sug-
gested some time back to President Nc
Kinley
''Ihen the British proposal was for
joint anglo American action i'll defense
OF the policy Of an open trade door to
China alone, as against expected Rus
lan-Gefman excIuSiveness, and, to
quote Mr.. Balfour's own words when
speaking OF the proposal, they were
mighty civil at Washington about that.
"But those who have talked with in
dividual ministers in the past few days
assure me that the British government
realizes the far wider scope for Anglo
American cooperation to which the
American Intervention in Cuba may
now open the way.
1.-The policy of the open door is threat
ened in West Africa, East Africa and
South Africa, as well as in China, and
ministers, believing that the Cuban in
tervention marks the close OF United
States isolation from the foreign poti-
tics of the outside world, are convinced
that this cause OF unfettered commerce
i'll the undeveloped markets of the
world must soon bring England and the
states, not into formal alliance, that
must be a matter of slow development,
but into a close, definite, mutual under
standing and to that end they will con-
tinue to work.
sWhen the secretaries of the Spanish
legation meet the American legation
attaches at the clubs or i'll society they
merely recognize them by the most
frigid and most formal bows, though
before most cordial. Naturally, the
Americans are obliged to reciprocate
with similar greetings while smiling in
their sleeves. The other diplomats con-
slider the Spanish tactics as decidedly
childish.
GA prominent Englishman, who be-
heyes III the justice of America s cause,
and who is also of the opinion that the
United States will certainly have a
walkover, is Lord Wolseley, the COM
mander-in chief of the British forces.
During a dinner party conversation
Lord Wellesley drew parallel between
Cuba and Crete, saying:
While England interfered in Crete
ON moral grounds, the United States has
both moral and material justification
for intervention in Cuba.
81 believe the quality of the Ameri-
can army and navy is SO much superior
to Spain's that the Americans will have
no difficulty in defeating Spain's ships
and land forces, which are their equals
or superiors on paper only"
The weeklies, except The Saturday
Review, continue to favor the United
States and have faith in her success.
The Statist thinks that if the CONT
mental powers threaten to intervene
Great Britain ought to veto their action,
and urges the government to make this
clearly understood.