Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1917 — The Future of Anglo-American Relations [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Future of Anglo-American Relations

By Lord Northcliffe, Editor of the London Times

In the light of this huge conflagration we can all of us, on both sides of the Atlantic, rate at their true value the trumpery boundary disputes, the irrational and manufactured controversies, that for so long kept Great Britain and the United States apart. • They have now come together under the stress of an unprecedented crisis, but a crisis that will infallibly recur if they again fall apart. Far beyond anything else, the peace of the world depends on a working union between its great democracies, and especially between the United States and the British- empire. There will or there will not be a “next time” very largely as these federations succeed or fail in shaping their

future policies in common. But among the self-gov-erning English-speaking peoples policy follows opinion. It is not enough that their respective governments should act in concert They must be buttressed by that informed opinion which can only spring from sympathy, just as sympathy can only spring from knowledge. The United' States and the British empire must learn to know one another. They must be made conscious through all their diversified millions of that central unity of ideals and instinctive ways of looking at things and forms of government and society that binds them' closer than the peoples of any other two politically separated entities on earth. A simultaneous campaign of education in the United States on Great Britain and the British empire, and in Great Britain on the history and daily life and institutions and temper of the American commonwealth, would be a contribution of the first moment not merely to their present comradeship in arms, but to their destinies hereafter. American, Ambassador Page has made some fruitful suggestions as to the ways and means of this campaign. I may add another. It is that Great Britain should always be represented ip the United States by ambassadors of the same type as himself and his predecessor. .—’