Show Great Britain and wul Amer America u a OUR R English friends are arc more o or less troubled beJ beJ be- be because er e- e J r J cause cluse of a n. belief that we wc do not like them Not only the Irish Americans and their political friends AVO wo are lre informed d but many others rs as ns well are lacking Jacking ackin in regard regard re- re gard for our late associates in v 1 ar Letters from the theother other side express regret and ask the reason for miu- miu willIT will good IT Thoughtful persons realize that American Anglo friendship must be the tile basis for the tIme worlds world's s security and in future and deplore efforts to stir up 91 old 1 r but despite this attitude these same silme persons are arc conscious of a n. decline in cordiality What hat are arc t the c rea- rea rea-I rea tons aside from the Irish problem an and the natural re ie- ie actions following following- t the e close of hostilities 1 To Tule ulo nto a n few 1 The belief of or many that President Wilson was persuaded to accept a League o of Nations that will wiIl be Le chiefly useful in ill holding hoMing the British empire together t and in which the empire will outvote us six to one 2 A conviction that the tue military el class in B England Jand is ts inclined fn to belittle our Dart in in war WU t 1 3 for such I harsh h ars measures aur as were employed cm- cm plo cd by General D Dyer cr who dispersed a u mass meeting in jn it a suburb of in the tue Punjab region India by byr y r shooting dead nearly of tho the fleeing people mid arid wounding nearly 1500 1300 No mere chance to escape or surrender was given the unarmed natives J 4 Distrust of oI British policy in ill E Egypt pt Persia and anci Mesopotamia C. C Belief that lint the En English l h still look Jook upon us as primitive anti and generally inferior to themselves in in ino was A This belief is fostered by publications au an nh article on the tile typical Englishman in a n. recent isI is- is I C of the New Statesman a I London weekly which said salt j in d the Englishman that he lIe ii is i II not not a a. perfect i but ut m a u. better man than any m other man mrm that he beis is I 5 H not not so simple-minded simple as an Am American We c could for fore ive e our British friends almost t every every- else elX if they could rive give up pointing X out ways ii in I which we are are- inferior to them That hat is mad maddening to us as it is to Canadians To be n. n young pioneer ing race is more direct frank cordial more effusiVe c I than members of oI older nIl an er civilization ch nt I we concede that such qualities betoken simple simple- Thomas W. W Lament Lmont of Nev Ne Neyr York York indicated m a n fair de- de gree grce o of worldly wisdom when hen in m an article in fn the An- An j ae-j Financial and Commercial Review Re of the London he lie suggested that our British awl arid French friends mends stand a n better chance in making sentimental ap- ap to America for loans if ir they bey would protect th their ir ec exchange rates instead of rushing off to use money mone in capturing new now trade outlets opened to them by the defeat de do- c- c feat fent of Germany German Nor are arc we likely to heed the of John lohn Maynard Maynard May May- raynard nard British treasury expert who would have us ts for forgive the the allied debts 1 10 us amounting t to ten tea bil billions lions thus mn- mn making ing our indemnity equal to the reduced amount he would collect from Germany I We reo are going to remain good friends with the Brit Brit- ish Ve We have faults t to match theirs goodness knows and arid then there is always the need for keeping up friendships friendships friend friend- ships in the world But let them on our aim sim- sim- sim at mit the risk of being disappointed I 1 |