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Show Conflict of Interests Producing Dangerous Rift Between England and America By DR. MINOT SIMONS, New'York (Unitarian). England and America are drifting into erious and definite opposition oppo-sition over the issue of the freedom of the seas, and war is more than probable unless an agreement is reached between the two countries. It is Lincoln's spirit of frankness and sincerity which speaks both tc England and to America the needed word of the hour, "Come out into the open with the issue and settle it now while there is yet time." ' The conflict between America's insistence upon the free and undis turbed right to navigate the sea in time of war and the British polic of controlling neutral commerce with its opponent has been the underlying under-lying cause for the practical nullification of the Washington conference the failure of the Geneva conference, the launching of this country'!-huge country'!-huge naval program and the serious difficulties with England in 191 f and 1916. Dr. Nich!as Murray Butler's recent suggestion that the United States agree to recognize a blockade as punishment for an aggressor nation na-tion is the most constructive suggestion yet made in an effort to settle the problem. |