The Washington herald., 1906-12-02

one Of the first essentials in a successful
ambassador
The Outlook to-day discusses the situa-
ton. including the change in public SEN
t.ment in the two countries, in a long ar
ticle. in which it says:
"Anglo-American friendship cannot pass
from state of feeling into policy of
acting until the Americans have discarded
some Of their prejudices. cut loose from
some Of their traditions, and gathered
more extended acceptance of interna-
tional politics. That viii take time. The
process Of emancipation is going on in
the American mind, but at present 1t has
not gone very far. They scarcely realize
even now that they are launched on
stream of consequences and tendencies
that wherever il may finally land them
cannot but carry them clean past the
old. narrow bounds. Hardly a month
goes by without some fresh proof that
the United States is iTrevocably commit
ted to playing an ever larger share in
/ 'WeltOpOlitik' So long as that is So.
AuglO-AmeriCan amity, if not an Anglo
American alliance, is. in our judgment.
assured The United States cannot be a
world power and anti-Butish but while
We feel that the permanent current Of na-
/ tiOnal interests. sentiments, and neCessi-
ties are tending toward an Anglo-Ameri-
can understanding, there should be some
4 thing more than after-dinner rhetoric.
/ Heed for Presidents Friendship.
I'VE quite recognize that on the sur
face there seems just now to be a slack
ening OF the tide. There is more than
one reason for this It is possible that
/ Sir Henry Mortimer DUrand has not been
able TO establish those happy personal
relations with the President that contrib
uted so largely TO the success Of Lord
! Pauncefote and Sir Michael Herbert. II
/ that be so, the matter is one Of consid-
/ cradle consequence.
/ President Roosevelt dominates politics
1 in America at this moment to a degret
/ scarcely exceeded by President Lincoln
during the stress of the civil war. anC
any insuficiency in his relations with al
ambassador reacts at nee upon the
/ country which that ambassador repre-
sents. If this, however, is Of the natur,
/ OF suppOsitiOn, the extraordinary advanc,
/ which has been made by the German
| Embassy at Washington. and the novel
continuous exchanges Of condolences be
/ tween the President and the Kaiser ar
unquesuOnable facts, and facts that hav,
already had once and may have again
a direct influence on the course of inter
national politics.
Drifting Apart Because of Japan.
Moreover, all is not well between tn
United States and Japan. Apart from tn
difficulty about the school children a
San Francisco, the Americans are appre
hensive as to the future of their com
merce in the far East They have lost
good deal of their sentimental admiration
for Japan and now watch her swift ex
pansion with an irritated sense Of help
lessness- The reflex action of these de
veiopments has lain in the direction o
deposing Great Britain from her positio
as friend and generating. not indeed
coOlness, but falling off in the oil
intimacy. That any permanent harm t
British interests is threatened we do no
for moment believe. The falling of
such as it is. is personal and official. an
in no way argues among the mass O
Americans any change in sentiment 20
that reason it is very far from being IRE
parable. Given an ambassador of tn
right type there IS no reason why Anglo
American relations should not in FEY
years recover all of their former CON
pleteness."