Anglo-American Ties
[X Stephen Leacock’s. new book, "The British Empire," he writes, "A generation of English children stalked warily with Fenimore Cooper through the American forest, fearing to snap a twig. Another generation bedewed the pages of "Uncle Tom’s
Cabin" with its tears. After the Civil War, the Massachusetts Public School, founded two and a half centuries before, came home to England in the Education Act of 1870. But if anyone wishes to understand the relation between Canada and the States better than history can tell or statistics teach, let him go and stand anywhere along the Niagara Buffalo frontier at holiday time. Here are the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jacks all mixed up to gether and the tourists pouring backward and fore ward over the international bridge: immigration men trying in vain to sort them out! Niagara mingling its American and Canadian waters and its honeymoon couples. We are satisfied on each side of the line to keep our political systems different, because annexation in the old bygone sense has vanished out of the picture. And in the other sense, of a union of friendship that needs neither constitution nor compacts, we have it NOW, and mean to keep it." (From Miss Glanville’s Book Talk, 3Y A, January 9.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 5
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