The sun., 1902-02-25
ENGLAND'S UNHAPPY WEEK.
FREDERICK GREENWOOD WRITES
OF THE PRINCES VISIT.
Grief and Surprise at Our Filtration with
Germany However. He Says the
Angio-American Understanding is as
Likely After the Visit as BEFORE
Special Gable Despatch 10 THE SUN.

Special Gable Ds,pafeh TO THE SUN
LONDON Feb. 24.-Frederick Greenwood,
the wel-known writer on political subjects
has an article In the PdH Mall Gazette to-day
on the United States. Germany ard Great
Britain in which he says:
A moro rapid or more striking change
of scene has rarely been witnessed than
when a short while ago the sun went down
upon Germany raging full front against these
shores, to rise the next day upon the same
Germania with her plaits in order, blowing
kisses to the United States. Though the
correspondents of our newspapers have
done their best in assuring US again and
again.that the merest Irritation is meant,
and exhorting us to doubt not that
the genuine affections of America are
fixed on England, long week unhappiness
awaits us. Indeed, at the first glimpse
OF what was going on in Germany and the
United States there was some grief and
much surprise in England, and neither
has been done away with. Whisperings
OF the sundering of ties OF gratitude and
forgotten bonds OF obligation arose i'm
mediately where silence on such matters
would have been not only more dignifed
but more business-like. II ould have
rendered 10 the United States by our Govern
ment had been greater than those we hear
OF and II, in asserting them, they had not
been unfortunately exposed to contradic-
ton and dispute.
Until Lord Cranborne opened the sub
ject. England's services to America at the
crisis of the quarrel with Spain were but
vaguely known on either side of the At
In nj In naV,t 20 .fyt, tnl D,v Il
grees we in England were getting prouder
and prouder Of the good turn we had con-
triyed for our American cousins, though
we did not know exactly what it was. In
the meantime our American cousins were
melting TO an adequate sense of gratitude,
though they did not know exactly why.
One thing, however, is generally under
stood.
II the friendship was English the enmity
was German. Whatever was its scope and
intention the plot was made in Germany.
However baf1led, it was baffied by England.
Therefore it must be allowed that England
might naturally be overcome with chagrin
for the moment, when, at the very time
the German quarrel rose to its worst. her
enemy and her friend were seen running to
embrace. Did our old political instinct re-
there was not much pride in recalling
claims TO gratitude, nor even much wisdom,
for such claims arc most in danger when
reproachfully asserted Friendship there
was in what we did but policy also.
-As an independent consideration It is
not foolishness but wisdom and something
more il the Americans decide that German
interference was all in the game This
we ought to be sensible Of The Americans
can be quite sufficiently grateful TO England
for a kindly turn and yet cherish no long
resentment for what on the other hand
was neither a very novel nor unfair stroke
OF diplomacy.
The reception Of Prince Henry may
bring US solid benefits We do not all know
how TO value vet the first correction of
the kith-and-lun illusion. | indeed, the
most excellent consequence of the second
and clearer understanding of the con-
ditions upon which the United States enters
upon its imperial career and of the obliga-
tons prescribed to its Government bv
wisdom as much as hv necessity Is that its
foreign policy demands con plete freedom
from all understandings and alliance
except such ~ have a definite, limited and
separable purpose.
The article concludes; AS for the Anglo
American understanding, such as Va heard
so much of two or three years ago, IL will
be Just as likely after the visit of Prince
Henry "a > fore -tllt = % t1v, II will
never be likely until the two alons are