The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-16
WHOLE WORLD
LOOKS TO u. S.
AND ENGLAND
Two Nations Must Provide New
Rules for International.
Game" Say Students
Of Subject.
NEED FIRMER FRIENDSHIP
Japanese, Naval, Irish Problems
Should Be Solved and
Secret Treaties
Discarded.

all EnEfiSnmen, bfltts. H. u Tciu III
the New York Times. What is Amer
ica thinking about England?" is often
asked in London. "What chances are
there for the creation Of new sori OF
relationship. relationship built on the
PRONUNCIATION of peace rather than on
the preparation for WARP
A. C. Gardiner. essayist and political
Journalist. published recently his book
it is little more than pamphlet
called The Anglo-American Future"
Thomas Seltzer Publishing Co.). The
book has had wide circulation. and,
with few exceptions. has been accept
ed as an expression Of the English
attitude. The writer asked Mr.. Gard
iner for an interview. The need fora
new and better relationship was conced,
cd. "How is it 10 be atiained! was
the question asked him.
"Gei the grit out OF the machine, he
replied crypiically. Get the grit out
of the machine. All the talk in the world
about better feeling between England
and America win moi help particle
until the gtii is removed, so that the ma
chine that will build up an Anglo
American future, based on understand
ing and good feeling rather than inter
national wrangling and military compc-
tition. will run without political bitches.
The grit. ! regret to say. is not all
of English make There is the japanese
grit. the naval grit and the Irish grit.
All Of them are clogging up the wheels
and retarding the progress, not only OF.
the two nations about which we are
speaking. but Of The entire world. For
IL is to America and England 10 which
the world must turn today for the solu-
iicn Of its problems. for the formation
Of new standards, for the creation of
new illusions. The war proved that
Continental standards, Continental illu-
sions and ideals were not sufficient.
They were not real. They didn't work.
To-day the whole world is looking
toward America and England 10 pro
vide the world with a new set OF rules
for playing the game. We can give
them that sci Of rules, provided We first
clear the way for better relationships
between our nation and yours.
JAPANESE PROBLEM LOOMS
mot the least important factor in the
Anglo-American future is the clearing
up Of the Japanese problem. England
has had secret agreement with Japan.
That much is known. Will England
continue this agreement or formulate a
new one? The right.thinking English
man, the Englishman interested in the
peace Of the world and the guardian.
ship Of that peace by the two greal
English-speaking nations is most Ger
tsinly averse TO il. He knows that JUS
as socn as an alliance with Japan j:
made Just so soon can he give up the
idea Of America extending the hand o.
cooperation 10 him.
America willy.nilly has been pullec
into the arena Of world events. Th'
great war has made puddle Of tn
Atlantic. 1t no longer exists as al
ocean. Coming over to Europe ha'
ceased to be the adventure of past years
1t is trip undertaken with less prepa
Iation than going from one American
coast to the other.
The ocean that really divides tn
East from the West today is the Pacific
Ii is there tha, the eyes Of the world ar
turned. And it is there hat futur
wars will be fought if agreements sue
as is contemplated between England an
Japan are made. America will nc
stand. BY without raising hand whe
she finds herself surrounded by cour
tries engaged in an alliance to insur
each others strength against other. NJ
tions. Fear Of Japanese aggression
always uppermost in the American
mind. That is something about whic
the average Englishman seems TO be j
norant.
"A Pacific guarded on the one side !
japan. on another by Australia and Ne
Zealand; on still another by Canad
not forgetting an Atlantic in which En-
land PLAYS no small pari, all bound I
sethcr by an Old World agreement, w
hardly be conducive toward the form
tion or the growth Of new and bett
feeling between the two great Englis
speaking countries. England has be
lingo in the past. Japan is frank
jingo today. surely it is hardly to
expected that America. placed betwe
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