Evening star., 1920-01-25
BLOWSAT BRITAIN
CREATING DANGERS
English BeWiIdered by "Anti"
Demonstrations in U. S.
by Irish and Others.
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL.
(CabIeEram to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright. 1930.p

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LONDON. January 21.-Considerable
anxiety prevails among thinking
Britishers lest the Sim Fein and
other anti-English forces in the
United States ultimately imperil
Anglo American peace. For the most
part British newspapers refrain from
working up feeling here over such
incidents as comforting the freedom
of New York upon Prof. De Valera
as president of the Irish republic.
But for this editorial restraint Great
Britain would be afiame in short or
der. AS il is, popular sentiment be
trays signs of irritation, and II the
friends of Anglo American peace IN
the United States can do anything to
prove to the British people their dis
sociation from the Irish secessionist
movement they should act Win
promptness and Higor
Brftishers regard the Irish rcpub-
| lican agitation from the same stand
point as the northern states of Amer
| ica regarded the agitation Tor an
i independent south. AS We call the
| action of the southern states seces-
sion so the Britishers call the sim
| Fein movement secession. AS We
| deemed a division OF the Union IN
! compatible with the development OF
a secure national life on the :Amerl-
| can continent SO our friends IN TINS
| country deem the strategic unity OF
the British Isles Indispensable Tor
| the continued existence of the Brltlsh
| empire.
| Britain wants peace with America
| She wants it intensely. She does NOT
| want it out of any craven or paSe
motive but because she copslders II
| vital to democracy, if not to any
thing. resembling civilization on thls
planet There is not. l thing, SIN
gle important man in Great Britain
hat 4
institutions as we know them would
survive an Anglo-American war
| Many happenings in America have
hurt British susceptibilities and madc
people here ask themselves with real
! concern Are the Amerlcaps. after
all. our friend or our enemies?' When
the Senate adopted the resolution
lconcerning Ireland it hit British pride
a severe blow. Only the self-imposed
curb of the newspapers averted the
flaming out of popular passion. When
the Senate listened to ordinations OF
Britain from Irish, Egvntian, Indian
and other nationalist& the empire
this people was astonlshed. 1t asked
What would America do IL we us
tened in parliament to ordinations OF
her from her discontented citizens
Here again the newspapers ignored
the Senate's action or minimiZed I,
and the people either forgot or los'
the Keen edge of its resentment.
The British hear faint echoes ol
lanti-English agitation. persistent anf
often malicious and mendacious. eN'
tending from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific No violent outbursts have yel
occurred but the public temper is lr'
ritated, bewildered. suspicious and
might easily be set afiame. This il
particularly deplorable because dif
ficulties are certain to arise betweei
| citizens of the empire and the repub
llic owing to the unprecedented eco
nomic stresses of the future Alread.
these frictions are appearing in man.
directions.
In an essay on the causes of wa
E Elihu Root emphasizes the especia
danger of i'll will and suspicion be
, tween two nations when any diplo
Imatic contention develops betweel
{ them He declares that when ma
{ tions are naturally sympathetic an
Itrustful the most formidable dispute
: between them can be amicab bly, settled
whereas in contrary conditions th'
slightest clash or opinion or ambition
imay lead to war.