THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP.
In his “Sport and Life on tho Pacific Slopo,” Air. Horace Anncsley Vacliell utters a warning against the idea that Britain and Britons aro beloved in tho New AVcst of tlio Lnitcd States:— , ~ . „ “It is time, therefore, that I,lighted understood that tho vaponngs of the after-dinnerr orators upon tlio unity of the Anglo-Saxon race, upon blood boing thicker than water, upon our kin beyond the sea, and so forth, are so nnicli smotco. The Americans are not Anglo-Saxons, but an amaliram of Teuton, Kelt, Latin, Slav, and Anglo-Saxon. AVe happen to spea'k a language soiuowhat similar to what passes current in tho United States. We are also Uncle Sam’s best customer and his biggest creditor. AVo have ideals in common, Shakespeare and AFilton in common, laws in common. En"land and America have, in short, what lias been called a manifest destiny to work (not together, but apart) for that which makes for the enlightenment of tlio world and the progress of civilisation; but- we aie not° brothers, nor cousins, nor good friends —and that is the naked tiuth.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2195, 20 May 1908, Page 4
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