The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-31
ASKS FOR UNITY BETWEEN ENGLISH
 AND AMERICANS

Oxford, Eng, Oct. s1-Dr. Stephen Leacock, head of the department of political economy in McGill Univer- sity at Montreal. Que, told the mem bers of the British-American Union in an address here today that the British and American people should have a better knowledge of each other, maintain more sympathetic ican union, without pledge or com pact. Is to become a fact.
 :: He declared that the time for parliament of man" and Federation of the world" was not yet. "The League of Nations, though 1t may con- tain with 1t the seeds of future con cord. cannot serve as yet as a shield against aggression and injustice" he affirmed. '"The principal hope of the world is to be sought in the continued frendship of Britain and America.
 'The vast communities of peoples gathered under the British and Amer ican flags represent an organization of power easily superior to any force that could conceivably be brought against it, Where these two nations lead the world must follow. Peace and war lie in their hands.
 "on the other hand, disagreement between Britain and America spells the world. So great is the power of each that war between them could mean nothing but mutual destruction, Neither could conquer; both must fall.
 ''The efforts of every honest citizen should be bent towards the mainten- ance or peaceful relations and mutual understanding, There is no question here of union in the narrower sense
 of federation in its organic form, A century and q half ago it might have been, But the page is written and cannot be plotted out,
 ''But for the more real form of union there is still ample need and opportunity. The basis is there in common speech, q common literature and common tradition. To a great extent the tie of common descent stlII holds, The union that is needed is not one that is contriVed with pen and ink and written on a scrap of paper, but the union that reflects an understanding and common pur- pose, a union of sympathy and not of symbols,
 '"To my thinking the best and truest means of union is to be sought in enlightenment. Our quarreis in the past have arisen from our lack 1 or Knowledge of one another, our in | ability, through ignorance, to share one another's point of view. For this 1 the remedy is better knowledge. The
 more we caa interchange our thoughts the more certain are we of agree 1 seek to share one another's ideas, | through books, through the press, 1 through the drama.
 l 'sWe should facilitate in every way tbe sympathetic relations of our great ! uaiFefsities. Harvard should come l ts Oxford, and Oxford in return should cezne and sit among the elm
 trees ae Cambridge, in Massachu- setts, istsRiRs. There should be be- ! tweeR Britain and America a een-
 staat and RerRefual interchange, a
 sort ef~tidaf e5b and flow. of all that
 makes for sc22, ,o}aEs1liB and literature.
 Much is already aaR6: But. much re
 mains. fR business Fnep have long
 since fe1iRA put flat the personal
 relation is everything. We must apply
 the saZRe to puE political relations. l We must not rely Apop coaclaEes of | cabinets and eongressmep. We must know a4s another; In the face ot
 such knawtedge iH-wiH will vanish
 and British A Afnerican union, withou