The Washington herald., 1918-07-06
The Anfo-Saxon World and the Coming Peace.

Inc AnEorodx0n world ana the I0mnG fedce.
The celebration of the Fourth of July in Lon
don should make a profound impression on
Americans 1t reveals British character at its best
Likewise it gives US a real. tangible glimpse of
what the future world state, involving the CO.
operation and fraternity of all civilized peoples,
is to be-it is forerunner of the working inter
nationalism of which President Wilson is the
answering champion.
Is 1t too much to say that the League of
Nations must have as its broad and sound founda-
ton an Anglo-American understanding? We do
not to slight the clear-visioned Latin world.
the French and the Italians to whom bound
by the greatest ties of affection; nor do we assign
to an inferior place the Slavs, who today are
groping towards freedom with almost the same
tragic fatalism and suffering with which they
accepted, for countless centuries, the heel of
despotism. All that imply is the
obvious duty and responsibility resting upon the
British and American peoples, who have Orientated
democratic institutions to degree unknown to
any other people, and whose combined power is
destined to be the prime moving force of the
world for at least two generations after the war
draws a close.
free and full rapprochement between America
and England is, therefore, of the highest inn
portsnce; it is one of the greatest fruits of the
war that will come to u.s. The initial
towards this Tapprochement has been taken by
the Britons What said in London the
Fourth is OF historical importance to the world
almost as important what said at Mount
Vernon. For instance. here is excerpt from the
speech OF Col Winston Churchill, British minister
of munitions who is himself half an American
The Declaration of Independence is not only
American document. By it we lost empire,
but by it we also saved empire. By applying
its principles and learning its lessons pre-
served our communion with powerful COM
monwcalth, children established beyond the
seas.
Il persuaded that the finest and worthiest
moment OF British history reached on the night
we declared war upon Germany. Like the people
OF the United States, entered the without
counting the cost thought Of reward. The cost
will be in the end far more terrible than the dark
est expectation but the reward that is coming is
beyond the deepest hopes.
what is the reward2 Deep in the hearts OF the
people OF these islands is the desire to be truly
reconccd with their kindred across the Atlantic,
to blot the reproaches and redeem the blundcrs
Of bygone age and dwell in spirit
with them. That was the hearts desire which
seemed utterly uuattainable but which has been
granted.
"The presence at this moment in Europe of
million American soldiers, awaiting side by side
with their French and British comrades the utmost
fury OF the common enemy, is event that seems
10 tranSCCnd the limits OF purely fnunQdne tnnRS
and ills us with the deepest awe. Amid the
carnage, the mcasureless grief and desoation, am
convinced that the world is being guided towards
something better and much finer than has ever
been known"
James Bryce. former British Ambassador to the
United States, said:
"For many a year today celebrated in the
United States with hostility and defiance. By us
in Britain it remembered with as
marking the severance of precious ties. And now,
after I42 years, it is being celebrated by both
peoples with like enthusiastically the children of
those who revoltcd against the British crown, as
by the children of those who sadly admitted the
loss of one OF that crowns choicest jewels. :.
The New World has to redress the balance
of the Old Its fresh and fiery spirit has the
promise of victory. .... Britain and America, to
quote and adapt the famous words of Pitt, have
altogether led the world of freedom by their ex-
ample. Together they will save it for freedom
by their exertions."
On this side of the Atlantic our thoughts took
a somewhat different channel the day before yes
terday-we thinking of America the melt
ing pot of all races, and the spokesman for the
freedom of them all, no matter how lowly. But the
melting pot means nothing if it does mean
that the children of alien who como to us
are to be trained and educated in the principles of
democracy and of Americanisnl-which is coming
to be more and more synonymous with Anglo
Saxonism.