The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-27
AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN.

The American Number of The
Times, published in London on the eve
| of American Independence Day, is a
remarkable symposium of expressions
from English and American newspa per
| men, educators, statesmen and pub
| lieists on the entente cordial be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain.
The number is a striking common
| tary of British affairs at the present
time and gives some interesting
glimpses into past history of the
United States and England. The
| leading editorial, which Is too lengthy
| to publish in it's entirety, makes the
following sound representation of the
situation which has recently Develop
ed in the United States, between Great
Britain and America:
"One Of the essential requisites for
the permanent peace of the world is
that the English speaking peoples
should work together in good faith
and mutual good will This is not,
we believe. disputed by any thinking
and well-disposed person. Unhappily,
| there are many and powerful forces,
far from we'll disposed which are
working industriously to keep Great
Britain and the United States apart;
and the most effective weapon with
which they work is persistent mis-
representation of the character and
aims of each people in the eyes of the
other. They can be countered only
by equally persistent preaching of the
truth and by making each nation so
well understood by the other that mis-
representation will have no chance.
Our ways Of thought and our demo-
cratic idea1s-our principles, ambitions
and springs of conduct-are so much
alike that greater mutual knowledge
can only lead to fuller sympathy. Out
of entire understanding will grow
unity OF sentiment and action. 1t is
in this BelieE ana to promote this
understanding that we present our
readers today with what is, beyond
doubt, the most nearly complete
survey of the problems and conditions
Of life in the United States at the
moment that has ever been given or
attempted.
while the following pages as a
whole. however, are devoted to ex-
planning present-day America to Brit
ish readers, one conspicuous exception
will be found in the article by Lord
Bryce, printed upon this page. The
American people know Lord Bryce,
and trust him. 1t recognizes both his
insight and his honesty. Few things
would be more beneficent and would
contribute more to good will between
the peoples than If the American peo-
pie would digest, believe, and take to
heart what Lord Bryce here teaches
namely, that whatever may have>been
the offences of the more distant past
and however laundering and ill-in-
spired the British government may
have been of late, the fundamental
difficulty of the Irish question today
is not any difference between Ireland
and England, but Is a difference be-
tween two sections of the Irish ques-
ton as an irritant in the feelings be-
tween the two nations is dwelt upon
by other writer's in this number, as by
our Special Correspondent in his i'm
pressions of a recent visit to the
United States, by our Washington
Correspondent, and by DR.. Albert
Shaw. There is some divergence of
opinion as to the lengths to which it
may be possible for the Irish agitators,
with their German and other unfHend-
ly allies, to coerce Congress along the
path of hostility to Great Britain.
But there is no divergence as to the
seriousness of the Irish question as an
obstacle to International good will. If
Lord Bryce's article does anything,
as tit may well do, to lessen that seri-
BUSINESS, he will have performed a
great service to both peoples and to
the world"