AN ANGLO-FRANCO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12631, 19 October 1905, Page 4

AN ANGLO-FRANCO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE.

Mr A. Maurice Low's monthly summary of American affaii-s in the " National Review " is chiefly interesting on account of the extracts it gives from two articles which have appeared in the New York press and have excited a good deal of attention in the United States. One is from the pen of Mr Paul Mor-. ton, and was written while he was still Secretary of the Navy; the other is a leading article in the New York " Sun," a highly influential newspaper. In the first, Mr-Morton recommends the formation of an Anglo-American -navy; that is to say, of one sufficiently powerful to protect the mutual interests of both countries, so that, in case Great Britain —America's best customer— should become involved in war with any foreign country, the American fleet should be sufficiently strong to keep open the avenues of trade; for, the writer says, " the almost unanimous feeling in the United States is that the English speaking people of the word together should have a combination navy that could hold its own against all the navies of other nations." Were this carried into effect, the two navies would not only be strong enough to maintain the international markets, but the power they would possess would enable them to exercise that power in imposing peaos upcm the rest of the world. The " Sun" suggests the establishment of a close and cordial understanding between the United States, Great Britain and France; for although neither of the English speaking nations could lend the other any assistance ou land if attacked by the Triple Alliance, or by Germany alone, yet as nations wage war with dollars even more than with battalions tihe vast pecuniary resources of Great Britain and the United States would suffice to liberate French soil-front its invaders. Cut off from credit in Paris, London, and New York, the bankers of Berlin would be bankrupt. The foreign commerce of Germany would vanish. " Her manufactures would die at the root. Her merchant navy would be swept from the ocean. Her transmarine possessions would be ravished, her.dream of a colonial empire would fade."