Show ENGLANDS FOREIGN POLICY The English papers in their review of the events of the past year criticise the foreign policy of England they consider it supine The termination of the Venezuelan controversy is looked upon as being more of a humiliation for England than anything else The termination of that controversy is certainly cer-tainly a triumph for the principle of arbitration The St James Gazette asks why the Marquis of Salisbury created an impasse from which we could not escape without war or surrender sur-render We took the surrender There is a feeling of bitterness and disgust in this question The indignation indigna-tion at Salisbury proves that even f w I r some of the English papers are beginning be-ginning to accept Bismarcks estimate of him as true He said that Salisbury was nothing but a lath painted to look like iron The foreign policy of the seagirt isle for the past year has been quite as vigorous as possible The day has gone by when all the world outside of Europe and the United States can be regarded as the legitimate heritage of England upon which no other nation has any claim The world may be said to be colonized and the territorial expansion of any country in future will only be accomplished through war Most of the nations of the earth have come so to speak to manhoods estate Very few of them can be bullied any longer and perhaps some are rather over quick to resent any slight feeling that they must assert themselves Any nation that shall attempt to carry out a particularly vigorous foreign policy at the close of the nineteenth nine-teenth century is quite apt to bring down upon itself the wrath of some other nation equally powerful with itself it-self A vigorous foreign policy means nothing less than jingoism Selfasser tion and swag are no more necessary neces-sary in a nation to command respect and enforce rights than they are in a man A vigorous foreign policy is tantamount to aggression and that means trespassing on some nations rights which leads to protest and resentment re-sentment on its part > The criticism of the English press of Englands foreign policy during the last year fails very largely to appreciate appre-ciate changed conditions Her foreign policy will probably never again be what it was in the good old days |