Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10
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Schiller, cannot awaken the feel
ing among us that Mr., Evans can
invoke with This Happy Breed of
Men, this little world.
TT ISN'T British plot. though
L the gentleman who telegraphed
me seems 10 think so. The British
have spread their language
throughout the earth by being
perennially fed up with Britain.
This country was founded and its
independence fought for by men
of pure English blood and purer
English language who didn't like
the government in the old country
and wrote Declaration OF
Independence and a Constitution
that have all the stigmata of
English thought
Our moral political literature
from jefferson 10 Lincoln to
Roosevelt is Miltonian and Crom-
wellian: not Lutheran.
Trade also follows language.
Probably the prime reason why
the bulk of our foreign trade is
with the English-speaking world
is because travelling statesmen can
bargain in II.
Colonel LlRdhergh- speak
about union with Canada. but, al
though he advocates a Western
Hemisphere" policy. he does not
speak of union with Central and
South America. Why? Because
below the Rio Grande we don I
speak the same lingo.
THE tendency of the twentieth
Il century is toward the creation
of larger and larger political and
economic Units iIitleif,,s new
order is in this direction. The
probable outcome of the war. Who
ever wins it, will be a greater
unification of the European con-
tinent. although I do not think
that in any case IL will be Hitler's
concept Of Germany in the role OF
ancient Rome.
After all, Caesar conquering
Gaul and from there everything in
sight, was on the whole overrrun-
ming and absorbing people of
vastly inferior culture The French.
Dutch. Scandinavians. Belgians.
etcI are at least as civilized and
aNanced as the Germans.
But Britain, mother of our Ian
guage and of our Institutions. is
off the coast of Europe, but not
really Of it, Britain is green isle
in the sea. the British world Is on
the peninSulas of the oceans and
we. since the cutting of the
Panama Canal, are the great
island
l do not know why my cor
respondent who, l gather, belongs
TO America First or some other
isolationiSt group. should think me
an unpatriotic American to dream
of a union one fine day of the
whole English-speaking world.
For it is crystal clear which
organization of men would domi-
nate il. It's Center would be here.
in the spot of create : military
and naval security and industrial
and chronological power.
OF the two hundred million Eng
disappearing people of the world
nearly three-fourths of them live
in North America today.
Hitler wants 10 take the British
Empire, carve il 10 bits. throw the
neck and wings around 10 his satel-
lites and keep the breast and
gibletS for himself
Why not decide 10 keep the
English-speaking world together
in some sort OF free federation 3?
What's reasonable about such an
idea? Is Hitler going 10 be the
only person in the world allowed
10 dream dreams and see visions?
IT'S a good old American "Satur-
Il day Evening Post story about
the boy who left home and came
back with a fortune and invited
the old folks TO live IN his house.
We owe them something: rebel
liouS spirit. deathless attachment
TO freedom and the greatest and
richest language on earth.
And maybe I'm preiudiced. But
l have a bunch that this is exactly
what is going 10 happen.
We sing God Save the King 10
the words MY Country Tis of
Thee" and we can all compromise
on God Bless America with a
few more stars in Old Glory.
p. S: And besides. II would
finally solve the Irish question.
And that's something.
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