Show HAS confidence IN AMERICA english writer S satisfied eifle d that coun arys spirit Is undefeated and undefeatable the soundness nt at core of the modern man lias had one long triumphant demonstration om on take that wonderful little story of n certain british superintendent of the pumping station at some oil wells in mesopotamia A valve in the oil ripe pipe had split and a fountain of oil was vas being thrown up on oil all sides while thirty yards off and nothing ili between the furnaces were in full blast blast to prevent a terrible conflagration and great loss of life iffe and save the oil wells it was necessary to turn off the furnaces the superintendent without a moments hesitation sprang through the oil spray turned olathe furnaces and died modern man has been doing things like that all through this war we britons are an insular people ign ignorant orant for the most part of anything outside our own empire and it has struck me as it a rather wonderful tribute to america that one could go the length of britain and find hardly a creature who was 1 not calif confident that americans will display the same endurance bravery and unselfishness that we have seen displayed by our own men all these years ins instinctively t inet ive we know inow and feel it there Is something phoua in americans as in ourselves something undefeated and undefeatable it comes of our common cult of freedom and of the individual conscience and in both our countries Is a gr growing gaoing not a withering quail quality ty john galsworthy in harpers magazine |