AMERICA AND THE WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 June 1919, Page 5

AMERICA AND THE WAR.

TRIBUTE TO BRI"L‘IS'.~I EMPIRE SAN FRATN-'.‘.i°;f‘-‘)_, May -;o_ Americans are at least lieginm-,,g to realise the iniport-.1-,lt part played by the British Empire in she actuai Will--ning of the great wa: in Europe, and there is less pi-on-zness in the 131-c-5.3 of the United States I'loW!«lda__yg to exaggerafte the pal'tieipaiiu_v.l of Uum-le Sam’s soldiers in the w‘lrd—up of hastilities, the decent-nliim“-.ed newspapers of the States prefer:-itig IO freq-11er;.t.ly refer t 5" the bulldog tenacity of Biit. am, especially in the curly months 3f the war. 2

Among the numer.'):ls gal;:ini; tl'.‘lL»ut«~s‘ to the British Etnniro paid by the Aniericran Press pl'm2li‘.l-.*nce should l‘e given to a recent eominent by‘ that leading American journal, theixzmsas City “Star,” which says; all the world trusts Britain. This is '\Vh’:}':7 the “Star” remarks: “That luuler of the German Junkers, Count Reventlow, writer in the “Ta-ges Zeitung” a paezm of admiration for the‘ British Ernr;irC Presumably the Count hates the Empire as he did when he was writing of it as the “vampire of the seas.” But. he cannot. withhold the admiration that as an exponent of the doctrine of unscrupulous power he must. feel towards a nation that has been ‘c(n—spicuously successful. He Writes: "‘She has not only .<eclre;i the land route to India, but has obtained prominence in the vast .oglr‘-HS between Egypt. and India, The ;\:[-‘di-ten-anean Sea is undisputably }.32.-itisli In Africa she sees all her old zlrezivns realised_ She rules the dark Continent without a rival. ‘ln.the north the British power stretches to Iceland uni! Spitzbergen. By her rule in the North’ Sea. she influences the Scandinavian and Finnish and Baltic coasts, as well as to a great extent Russian tel'rito“_V. “All true. But what the Count fails -to mention is still more significant. That is, that no nation in the world, great or small, fears the British power. For the last ceutnr_v. Britain has been the undisputed mistress of the seas But she, kept the sea lane; open to Germany as well as to her own s‘n'[.<:. The Union Jack has meant the 0D("l'1 door.

AMERICAN SENATO'R’S TRIBUTE If ;\merican Senators have been busy severely man~haudling Presiclenir Wilson during the discussion upon the League of-‘ Nations ideal, there are other senators in the ‘United States who have not overlooketl the fact that ihc Britisli Empire has shaped the destinies of the People, of Ainerien by reason of John Bllll’s"‘suprelnacy of the seas, for John Sharp \VilliamS. Senator for Mississippi, paid‘ the following frihufe to England I'eCelltl3': “I want the Englisll—speaking race to control the seas of the world. and I Want them to do it not becallse Tllo3’ are the English—speaking race or my i-ace. but because they are the only two branches of any race in the World who love peace and who will fight for peace. If you think we are the oily democracy in the world. you rm: a°'ain mistaken. The Gove.-nment of Fugl:mr.l is more denioerariz fhan is :‘,ur own American Glovernnient The voice of the people of’ Great Brifain is put upon the si.:lfi‘l‘iv hooks within a few weeks after a general election. Anrl the voice of ours; may never be, and frequently has nof been.”