Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-01-29
ANTrATHY no ENGLAND
GROWING.

Inc washington correspondent OF
the New York Evening Post writes
his paper
British diplomacy, which erred so
disastrously in the Balkans through
Observation-Disclosures, may find its vision
similarly astigmatic in the not-far-
distant future with reference to the
United States. For Great Britain's
grip on the situation in this country
is not as tight as it was a few months
ago And If such forebodlngs OF
diplomatic difficulty as now appear
on the horizon eventually ALLEVIATE
American public opinion, il viii not
be the German propagandists, the
Dernburgs, or the Ridders, or the
restraints on American commerce or
the good old American dollar, but
only themselves that our English
cousins will have to blame.
Antipathy to England Growing and
Deepening.
The Evening Posts correspondent
made an exhaustive canvass during
the past week Of the high officials
of the United States Government,
officials also Of lesser importance,
but not without influence, and OF
many persons prominently identified
with the administration in the House
and Senate, ana the regrettable con-
clusion as a consequence must be
here set down is that a surprising
feeling Of antipathy against Great
Britain has lately been born and is
growing steadily either because Of
British failure to comprehend the
American point of view or unwilling
ness to attribute to it the Importance
it deserves
Causes of Resentment.
Reduced to its essence, the causes
are to be found in what British
statesmen say, sometimes publicly
but more often privately, about af-
fairs, what British editorials have
been and are saying about American
diplomacy and about the personali-
ties Of the Administration, and lastly
the Impressions that returning OBJ
servers of competent judgment bring
Of the temper OF disdain that char
aceri2es the feeling of any English
men for America. These things have
kindled fires of resentment that
might well invite corrective infu-
ences lest the public opinions of the
two English-speaking peoples soon
find themselves distinctly divergent.
What Anglers officials.
For nearly a year the United
States has been content to let the
issue with England drift with the
mere exchange OF long-winded,
though profound, notes on the acad-
emic theories of law and equity,
which have evoked in reply q similar
mass of verbiage and inaction. But
what touches the quick Of our Of
hicials is that while undeniably and
by force Of circumstances England
has reaped the benefits Of American
neutrality there has been scant, il
any, appreciation of it all abroad.
What the u. $. Could Have Done.
Had the United States chosen to
be painstakingly neutral, it might
have kept within the sacred province
Of neutral rights and duties, and inn
posed the following restrictions:
(1) A censorship on all tele-
of the Allies
CD An embargo on the export OF
munitions OF war at the outbreak Of
the war, as did Holland, Norway and
other neutrals.
tO) l4tBiSldllOu NllC
flotation Of war loans.
ca Strict measures to prevent
individual reseryists from leaving
the United States.
CD Convocation Of a conference
Of neutrals, which. as our own
officials privately admit would re-
solve itself into an anti-British con-
vention, demanding retaliatory
measures against British violations
OF maritime law
Many other things OF lesser i'm
portance, taken separately but
cumulatively embarrassing to Eng
land, might have been consummated
by the United States, but instead ii
has chosen to be passiyely neutral,
to rest on the wide discretion in
herent in neutral rights and obliga-
tions
Englands Black Engratitudc.
But how has all this been answered
or appreciated? Truly, officials have
realized that our Canadian neighbors
have shown their friendliness in
many ways, but from England. if the
misunderstood phrase, too proud to
fight" is not flung in, the face of our
Government constantly through the
press and in the music-halls, we arc
berated, for example, for having
abandoned the "high ideals of JUS
tice" by failing to register protest
of words against the violation OF
Belgian neutrality, or are solemnly
told we are recreant to the cause of
liberty" II we deign to take our
stand for long-established precedents
of law.
One has, indeed, only to read such
things as Col George Haryey's re-
cltal of the stinging irony and burn
ing criticism OF the United States
that he heard in an English drawing
room to understand the misunder-
standings that are being bred. II is
typical of so many other reports of
a similar nature that have come to
the attention Of high officials of the
Washington Government.
Growing Weary of English Hypocrisy
and Cant.
OF course our controversies with
Great Britain have their origin in
the contraband situation. Constantly
the British make answer to the