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...Americans that we should view the "tight little island," not as Englishmen, not as Irishmen. It is not an American policy to foment ill-will between any two nations. Those who try to provoke international enmities are no less enemies of the United States than those who deliberately injure us from outside. While maintaining our own sovereignty, we must not endanger our cordial relationship with Great Britain...
...soil, where the English triumphed five points to four, each place counting a point. On a return meet in 1901 in New York the Americans were more fortunate, winning by a 6 to 3 score, and this performance was again repeated in England three years later. In 1911 the Englishmen came to the fore again with a 5 to 4 victory, thus tying the series...
...meddle in British politics. As Senator Lodge bluntly said, "it is none of our business." English opinion is significantly set forth in the following quotation taken from the London Times: "The problem of Irish peace is essentially a British-nay, even-an English problem, to be faced by Englishmen. Any suspicion of foreign interference would prejudice the hope of a settlement which, if it is to possess and retain its full virtue must be spontaneous." Clearly, a blundering recognition of one of the factions would be of no service in the formulation of an adequate plan...
...American pilots. Then he was lost for a week, and General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, was deeply affected last week as he told a New York audience that Americans seemed to feel that loss,--the loss of a thorough sport,--almost more than Englishmen themselves...
...great institution for the crystalizing of educational ideas of our country and France. There are also the Rhodes Scholarships which enable Americans to obtain the benefits of Oxford University, and recently the Harvard Club of New York has created a reciprocal privilege through the Choate Scholarship, that enables Englishmen to become educated in American universities...