The sun., 1916-12-23
CALLS PRESIDENT
"WORLD IGNORANT"
Noted American Writing to
London shines" Says Will
son Is Untutored Pacifist.
GIVES HINT TO BRITISH
lie Advises Them TO Speak to
United States From the
Heart.

sSeciai cable DsssaicA TO TINS srS from tAs
Londos Times.
LONDON. Dec. - tSaturdny).-The
Iimss prints an article by a "distin-
guishcd American commentator now
visiting England who writes In part:
This move by President Wilson has
othin to do with German American
influence In the United States. The
voice that this move uses may sound to
the British people like the voice Of
Teutonism. but II would be the part Of
wisdom for all Britons to remember that
the hand which really made the move Is
"a hand amiable and world ignorant. a
hand OF untutorcd pacidsm.
II am not concerned here TO explain
or to defend the world ignorance. l can
only say. II I may use the extreme and
even srotesque Illustration. that I am
convinced after long experience In
watching President Wilson and his po-
litical supporters that they have taken
JUST o the same view OF the war be-
tween the spirit OF Great Britain and the
spirit OF Germany that Gladstone might
have had Of the war between Japan and
China. Being of pacifstic temperament.
not too familiar with the issues of his
tory and destiny In Asia, Gladstone's de-
sire for Asia as 1t actually was for
" HthtSa Wouto hoNO USNh otbst
simply and recklessly peace.
American IaeaIism.
For this condition Of q certain large
part Of the public mind In America !
must say the judgment Of the statesmen
OF Great Britain Is by no means without
blame. The correspondence sent from
the British Foreign once to the Amer
lean State Department might have been
the pulpit from which the genuine IDEAL
ism Of the cause Of the Allies might have
been sent deep into the hearts Of a peo-
pie who. despite ~ superficial CONNER
cislism which plays at business with
the same childlike zeal as the English
man. are fanatIcaliy and even absurdly
the most idealistic people OF the world.
No nation hat took the trouble to fight
even a little var in behalf OF Cubd ID
| without understanding of the fact that
war Ia sometimes Realistically neces-
sary,
But what has been the nature of the
Foreign once communication to amer
lea? Technical. aloof. barren. Both OF
our wars with Great Britain were fought
because OF questions which had their
roots In and the seas. Dis.
GUESSING those very questions with us to-
day. the British Foreign once failed 10
do anything but produce technical de-
fences for technical violations Of inter
national law. mingled with a few half
hea rted observations regarding German
atrocities.
Necessary Conviction.
The American people do not need 10
be convinced that the Germans am
a%trocious. They need to be convinced
that the purposes OF the Allies II sue
] cessfully carried out will bring new
value. glory and happiness to life In
Europe.
Great Britain has failed to produce
that conviction In certain large sections
OF the non.t;ermsn and the anti-Germar
population Of the United States.
Can this failure be retrieved? am
certain IL can. am among those who
believe that ruth can always be demon
strated. but in this case II can be dem
onstrated only by the abandonment u
the British reserve and British hauteui
through Willingness to speak to Americs
as a nation to a nation. a people 10 q
people. not from above the eyebrow,
but from the heart, frankly and self
revealingly. completely. with no reserva
lions either as to past. present or future
intention.
10 Great Britain is at all concerne,
to have larger support from the people
Of the United States II al get IL.
know. whenever II makes up It's mind I,
adopt the one possible way OF geitini
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