Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-11-10


There are multiplying evidences
that we are on the eve OF Witnessing
a renewed attempt to bring America
and England into closer union. 1t
is now twenty years since the pro-
paganda for establishing more in
innate relations between the two
countries was inaugurated Several
attempts were made to induce the
United States Senate to ratify arbi-
tration treaties of such character
that their ratification would have
been tantamount to an Anglo-Amer-
lean alliance. When the latest of
these attempts failed, our Angloman-
iacs set themselves to the work of
getting up an impressive pro-British
demonstration, which they hoped
would create q sentiment favorable
to the work in which they were en-
gagged Elaborate preparations were
made for celebrating the centenary
OF the signing Oft he treaty of Ghent
in December, 1914, which brought
the second war with England to a
close This scheme for fostering
pro-British sentiment was upset by
the breaking out of the great Euro
pean war in the summer Of 1914.
American people with anti-German
prejudices which was preliminary
to having American sympathy en-
listed on the side of England. We
all know how the pro-British organs
in this country carried out the task
assigned them. There was no Lon
don manufactured lie, however mon
strous it might be, that they were
not ready TO spread broadcast. All
this was part of the propaganda car
ried on in England's interest. A new
development of it is the publication
OF an American edition Of the Man
chester (England) Guardian" A
coDy of it has been sent TO US con-
tanning articles contributed by Lord
Bryce. former British Ambassador at
Washington, by Charles w. Eliot,
President Emeritus OF Harvard Uni
versty and by EX-President Taft.
In the American edition of the
Manchester Guardian" Bryce eX-
presses the belief that if Washington
were alive he would favor America
going TO war on Englands side. This
assertion is made by way of Offset
ting Washington warning against
entangling alliances with foreign
countries. The Ex-Brtish Ambassa-
dor to America thus indirectly pleads
for an Anglo-American alliance: 1T
has. moreover. been a fundamental
principle of American policy from
the time of Washington to avoid all
intermingling in the intrigues and
schemes and dissentions, in the al
lianccs and in the wars of the Old
World Very possibly Washington
could he have lived to see the present
situation, would have disregardod his
own doctrine, in the interest not only
of the world at large but of the
future security of America itself"
All this is by way of counteracting
the Washingtonian policy of abstain
ing from entangling alliance pol
icy that the entire tribe of Anglo
maniacs would like to see relegated
to innocuous desuetude.
Charles w. Eliot's contribution to
the American edition of the Man
chester Guardian" Is an article en-
titled American ideals and the
European Crisis" The President
Emeritus of Harvard University
starts out with a semi-apology for
America not having been more pro-
British during the last two years.
speaking LOT ulDlStll anu HIS l6llOW
Anglomaniacs he says that he and
they tried to live up to President
Wilson's advice about being neutral
as between the belligerent nations.
But the attempt was failure.
Eliot has the hardihood to con
denim American citizens who are not
enamoured with freedom Of the sort
here described. In the article we
are dealing with he says Among
the Irish in America one finds occas-
ionally a man whose hatred Of Eng
land overpowers his devotion to free
institutions. That is the way the
rrincc Of Anglomaniacs describes an
Irish-American who does not share
his own views as to the duty of
America going to England's assist
ance. He and those he speaks for
are doing their best to popularize a
pro-British propaganda in the United
States. The issuing of an American
edition Of the Manchester Guar
dian" is intended, no doubt, to help
them in the work they are doing for
England.