The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-05-27
MR.. eALFoUR AND US.

is destined to be one OF the most sig
nificant episodes in the history OF the
English-speaking people on both sides
of the Atlantic ocean. The obvious
thought is that his coming evidenced
the closer union, the nearer approach
of that reapproachment which some
day will work into a closer commun-
ion both political and racial between
the British Empire, it's allied daugh-
ter dominions and the first child, the
great American republic. than could
have been dreamed possible ten years
ago but for which the enlightened
thought and yisioning men OF both
England and America have been
dreaming, hoping and prayinf for gen
erations. says the Macon Telegraph.
The Balfour visit does not mean
lHdlt VI COuIStt Dut II Ndb luo way
in which the great Englishman was
received that indicates most signifi-
cantly the great change coming about
in the relation Of the two peoples
each to the other
He was not given the waltz OF dis
playd emotional welcome accorded to
Joffre and Viviani, nor was he given
the punctilious friendliness that we
viii accord the distinguished Italian
mission just arrived. Balfour and his
party were accepted by the American
people and the acceptance was 80 nat
ural, so unrestrained and logically
complete that like all deep and com
plete movements 1t was without a
great deal OF outer evidence. Sub.
consciously the average American did
not let his mind dwell on the English
party as he did with the French mis-
sion, because he took the former as
matter OF course, much as one
would welcome a brother back into
a familiar and intimate circle-plac-
Ing him at the start as close enough
in to be able to know he belonged
there without pains being exerted to
make him feel It, o
Mr.. BaIfour In his closing talk to
American newspapermen in washing
ton betrayed his sensibility Of this ex-
istence of peculiar relation between
his government and people and the
government and people of the Amer
lean republic as illustrated in his re-
ception and what he had been allow
ed to achieve in America. 1t was not
the talk OF a man bidding a formal
goodbye to hosts who had granted
him every formal courtesy, who had
been genuinely glad to have him--as
a guest Rather it was the au revoir
Of ono who has been made to feel that
he belongs to those of whom he was
taking his leave as well as to those
TO whom he was repairing.
Men who have studied and watch
ed. who have been given TO see and
understand the aims and relations OF
the two great political divisions of
the English.speaking people, of what
70, lack for "a better name we call
Anglo. Saxon civilization, have known
and sensed, despite Fourth of July
tail twistings and Piecadilly snobbery,
that the great scheme of world exist
ence could not forever keep apart the
two divisions They were as bound
as the sun to the horizon at night
to come together when the time came.
TO reunite to the source in which they
both at ono time found their habitat
after journey of a while along sep
arate though converging paths.
II has taken war to hasten 1t, put
II would not have waited always on
war. Even the intermarriage what
Mrs. Humphrey Ward so illuminat-
ingly described as the shuttle was
doing its part year by year to knit
and weld the mother land and the
great. strong. virile, independent and
successful first born back into the
ties of kinship. The English proved
they understood It and sensed II when
they sent Ralfour TO us. Americans
displayed an equal perspiouity in the
neeuliar nature and tenor of their