The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-11-17
U. S. NEUTRALITY
NETTLES BRITISH
LION N DISGRUNTLED AT THE
STAND TAKEN BH
AMERICA.
EXPECT DEFINITE ACTION
Sam Has Not Joined The
Allies.

New York. Nov. 11.--"What is
the real Aitish opinion of America S
attitude in this ware"
That is the question l put a short
time ago. while crossing the ocean
London bound, to Gaillars Lapsley,
one of the best-informed of all Brit
ish men of letters on. things Ameri-
can. as well as British. For while
Prof Lapsley looks all over the
British College and holds the chair
of medieval history at the now al
most deserted Cambridge University.
he is by no means the insular-mind-
ed man that one might easily have
supposed.
Prof Lapsley has lived many
yeans in America, serving at Har-
ward, and also i'm California. in. uni
versity work. But he is a keen, in
terested observer of current history
in the making, as we'll as a student
of things of previous centuries.
We had been talking with j. p.
Morgan and Ambassador Page. both
on the way to London, and the point
of British opinion of America had
been led up to in conversation COW
ering wide range.
well" said Prof. Lapsley in re-
ply. Il hardly know how to express
il best. may say that Britons hold
mingled sentiments; a mixture of in
dignatiOn. wonder and bewiIderment.
A large part of the people are frank
ly indignant that America should not
come out openly in the fight they
feel is a fight for the advance of free
dom among civilized nations. Among
a smaller class. better read, perhaps,
there is an effort to get your point
of view as we learn it thru official
notes, and acts, but frankly we can
not"
Not Popular in England.
have become convinced fEom
many talks with men in many walks
in England, that the professors di-
agnOsis is as correct as one can get.
The man in the street makes no bones
about it. and we are not popular in
England American residents there
tell me they are made to feel it ev-
cry day. When you arrive. you are
treated with coOlish courtesy, but
certainly not with warmth
Today, when the Noordam came
into port here from Rotterdam, there
was great rush for newspapers, no
news having been received by wire
less since leaving Falmouth ten
days ago. Among the seekers was
Lord Brabourne, who came recently
into his title thru death at the front
Of his predecessor in the title. At
once he leaped at the news vi the
sinking by U-boats of the Marina.
Now. will they act?" he exclaim-
ed.
called his attention to the fact
that the Americans on board were not
but employees of the Brit
ish owners, fact apparently putting
them on their own responsibility and
not under the pledges obtained by
President Wilson on the submarine
"Oh, yes" his lordship cried. "aI-
ways a way out in excuse" and
strobe away.
away.
When the U-53 appeared of our
coasts London papers made the news
A great feature, and editorialized by
the column to prove that here at last
were circumstances that should bring
America over. lock-. stock and barrel,
on the side of the Allies, and dis
gust grew when no such result was
forthcoming
American News Best.
Incidentally, this was about the
only piece of news from America that
graced British papers for weeks. Be
yond an occasional political article,
papers practically ignore
news from America.
Every Britisher on board the Moor
dam was anxious to get to America
for one openly expressed reason, at
least--that he could get more news
OF tho big war than he. could any
where else in the world.
AZ the moment, nothing is talked,
about more in the home politics of
England than the rapidly moving ma
some critics call ii so
cialization or Communication the
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