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Show sncy, ignorance or complaisancy is not to prepare peace but to make certain cer-tain disillusionment and conflict. It would be to back the wrong horse or win a Pyrrhic victory. 'Tf vigorous resistance to proposals propos-als inconsistenti with American interests in-terests is evidence of bitter enmity to England, then there is something fatally fa-tally incompatible in the interests of the two nations, and the sooner that fact is frankly faced the better for both countries and for the world, but no durable accord can result if British Brit-ish policy and opinion are. guided by voices in America disowned when over opportunity offered by the overwhelming over-whelming majority of the American people." ious economies who have all along urged the surrender of the wise American policy aga;nst permanent entanglement in European politics and the persistent sacrfice of American Amer-ican independence and power. '"This is not tne voice of America, j as has been proved repeatedly, and to accept it as such', though it may seem to promise advantage to the Bt-'itish, will prove to be a costly mistake. mis-take. To exploit American subserv- VIUTUAL RESPECT 3ETWEEN NATIONS. When an American newspaper or ".tatesman insists that in the question ques-tion of naval limitation, the defense requirements of the United States nust be carefully looked after in the forthcoming coference, we occasion t.lly get an outburst from some of otu more rabid internationalists that such statements are apt to work harm to the friendly interests between the United States and Great Britain and to defeat the purpose of the great conference. Of course nothing cot.ld be further from the tntth. It is the duty of Americans to look after the interests inter-ests of their own country and those n authority, from the Preside:".: down, will be found doing th's very thing. Nor is such action apt to break up any friendly relations between Uncle Sam and John Bull. All sensible sens-ible Englishmen realize that they must look after the requirments of their own country first, and they realize that we must do the same thing. If we did not do so, they would be much less inclined to respect js than they are at present. As between individuals, respect between nations must be mutual if it Is to feteompliah anything. And if the Amciiccan and European diplo-Mftrt diplo-Mftrt rto i.n'o c'irr f"l!o"."'3 r'ghts. :i.:.- .'ft ... 'i :vry- -;o get sontf iijtct; Lilt.. . ..Ouiu. L.C- one cate if Anrer-ca's Anrer-ca's representatives were inclined to be subservient. The Chicago Tribune recently well summed up the situation when it said: '"The real enemies of Anglo-American amity are not the Americans who insist upon candor and strict protection of the interests of the American nation, but the apolegetic Americans, the sentimentalists and advocates of short-sighted and fallac- |