AMERICA AND BRITAIN

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2264, 16 April 1921, Page 2

AMERICA AND BRITAIN

IN an address to the Canadian Club at Toronto recently, Dr. Paul Shorty, of the University of Griengo, dealt severely with the anti-British propaganda that is in progress in the United States. He said: “It is no derogation for a loyal unhyphenated, patriotic American, as I hope I am, to he classed Anglomaniac by the half-German, halfRussian anarchists. It means merely that 1 have enough sense to recognise that our common safety lies in holding together. It has been charged that I idolise the British Empire. Germans and Russians Mu*er at British methods. They think it unforgivable that when Russian or German diplomats open the game with a Machiavellian lead the British statesmen do not all return with an extract from the Sermon on the Mount. Do not take too literally all that is said in the States. We in America are united to Brita'n by community of law, language, literature, ambitions, and high ideals. If we cannot .develop with the British we cannot with any others. The British show marvellous patience with the antics of the American politicians, who fawn for every vote save that of every true American, which they think they can treat with contempt. You British have shown that von understand

and have quietly taken from us what, with any other nation the aggressor, would cause your fleets to he mobilised within 24 hours. The educated American, who would indulge in talk or the written word so as to breed differences between America and Great Britain, deserves no quarter. He either is a devil or a venomous fool.”