ANGLO AMERICAN LOVE ?

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1825, 4 August 1906, Page 4

ANGLO AMERICAN LOVE ?

Porno interesting opinions on t" i subject of Anglo-American rolati i followed on some rather extraordim statements made recently by Bish Potter, the well-known American i closiastio, on liis return to Now Yo. : from a visit to England. Bishop Po> tor has been very prominont in promoting Anglo-American friendship, and the two countries were startled to learn that Hie Bishop had told an interviewer that ho considered English pc-oplo un just to Americans, and that thoro was no lovo lost between the two countries. British protestations of lovo for America wero largoly “ gush,” tho prosperity of America being no promoter of friendly relationship. The English attitude over tho me at scandals seenm to have been tho chiof ground for the Bishop’s utterance. He com • plained that when he told the interviewers in Liverpool that the chiof difference between the Amorican and tho Englishman was that the American washed his dirty linen in public, whilo the Englishman went through the process in private, tho papers did not print his statement. It is significant that no American papor supports tho Bishop, though tho New' York Evening Post lectures the New York correspondents of English papers for (so it alleges) credulously cabling all tho stories afloat about tho moat scandals without a closo scrutiny. Tho Sim thinks that tho Bishop’s wash-dub comparison is hardly correct, seoing that England has been actively engaged in laundry work in public eiueo the closo of tho Boer war. Tho strongest support of Bishop Potter is lent by a prominent American visitor to London, who sees in tho “ ill-con-cealed gleo ” caused in England by the Chicago scandals ovidence of tho intense antipathy of tho Englishman for the American. In spite of tho fact that English merchants would also sillier, tho English people were in suppressed ecstasies over the exposure of *• Yankeo rottenness.” ■* Bishop Potter is quite right in sayin g ‘ (hero is no lovo lost between the two countries,’ and if he had said, in accounting for the fact, that thero is a radical and ineradicable basic dissension between the two races, ho would have been nearer the truth than ho is in attributing it to the public and private washing of 1 dirty linen.’ Believe me, tho American peoplo in their hearts would have loved you all the more if you hadn’t played the fife and drum quite so hilariously at the funeral of tho 'J inned Meat Industry. But the whole business ends in this—England for phlegm, America for nerves. How can they really lovo each other ? ” But the viow of tho Globe is probably a good deal nearer the truth. Except for natural and inevitable antagonism caused by political and geographical differences, and commercial rivalry, this paper thinks that tho nations arc closer together than ever before. “ There may not be love, but there is tho next best thing—a fair amount of mutual respect and toleration.”