THE NEW WORLD AND THE OLD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 286, 1 December 1914, Page 4

THE NEW WORLD AND THE OLD.

The war will have done one thing, at any rate, lor the United States. li will have made it realise that, even apart from business matters, the Now World is bound up with the old; that while one nation maintains an army, all must, and that the only possible independence is an independence backed up by guns. Even if America had no oversea possessions there would still he the Monroe Doctrine and the Panama Canal, and in one of recent cable messages an American military writer urges that the United States ought to maintain an array of half a million men. In this connection the remarks of the editor of “Die Zukunft” ought to interest the American. people. “Gerrfiany’s object,” one sentence • runs, “is to hoist her flag on the channel that opens and closes the way to the Atlantic.” Why the Atlantic? Sir Valentine Chirol’s exposure of Germany’s attempt- to get Britain’s help in doing away with the Monroe Doctrine may be an ans. wer to the question. Truly, Maximilian Harden, as well as Sir Valentine Chirol, lias given Count Bernstorff something big and awkward to explain away, says a writer in the Sydney “Telegraph.”