The Washington herald., 1921-12-26

derstanding, who have ,cieanfy strove to heal the
sore places Prominent among these is the former
British Ambassador at Washington. Lord Bryce
Of whom the Christian Science Monitor says in =
recent issue:
"In the great effort which has been made dur
ing the past few years in the United States and
the United Kingdom and throughout the British
Commonwealth generally to bring more closely to-
gether the Anglo-Saxon people, Lord Bryce oc-
cupes foremost, if not the foremost place. The
subject is one which has been discussed by states
men, business men, politicians, public men and
women of all classes, and no subject It may be
'venturcd, has been discussed with more sincerity
and earnestness. There is, however, quality
about all Lord Bryce's utteranees which carries a
peculiar conviction. He has way of taking great
fundamentals for granted in such manner as to
compel acquieseence; whilst long years Of expert
ence have convinced people that when Lord Bryce
gives an impression, it is not the impression of the
tourist, the astute journalist who sets forth and
returns and writes book 1t is the impression Of
who through several decades, has felt him
self equally at home on either side of the Atlantic
During his sojourn in the United States last
summer, Lord Bryce untirng in his advocacy
of still fuller understanding between Great Britain
and America, and now that he is back again in
England, he is found most earnestly advocating
the same cause Thus quite recently, he addressed
an important gathering of the English Speaking
Union in London, and the story he had to tell, and
the plea he had to urge, were alike calculated to be
peculiarly helpful at time when the fullest accord
between Britain and America means much to
the world. Lord Bryce was able to tell his London
audience that the Englsh-Speakng Union
ourishing and extending its good work in America.
He able to point to the fact that, in the large
eastern cities, many of the leading citizens belong
to it, and he able to state that the atmosphere
in these cities. and at Washington, one of
warm good feeling toward England, perhaps warmer
and more general than l have ever known be-
fore
Lord Bryce then went on to traverse the ground
of Ango-American friendship, to show how entirely
fundamental such friendship was, and how the
ticpation of any breach in it was found in no re-
sponsible quarters, but was the monopoly of a
small minority, without prestige any real in
fluence.
"On one point Lord Bryce was peculiarly help
full. Fully recognizing the difficulty of the sit
uaton as regards the question of the league of
nations, he was nevertheless, able to state frankly
that, although the last Presidential election had Zen
taken decision against the United States
ing the league in its present form he was constantly
assured by many authorities that there was no de-
cision to stand aioof All thinking Americans
he declared. recognized the mpossbility of any
such attitude and were free to admit that they
owed duty to the world, and must join in some
way other in effort to save civilization
from a recurrence of the calamities which had so
nearly wrecked it,
| - The first essential to any such settlement
Lord Bryce conceives to be an absolute under
standing between the people of Great Britain and
the United States, the two peoples that best un-
derstand another In this understanding in the
honest cooperation of the English-speaking peoples
all over the world, and in the influence upon other
nations of their ideals and their example, Lord
Bryce sees the best hope for the pacihcation and
progress of mankind"