Among the "War Papers" issued by the University of Chicago,
Professor Conyers Bead's paper on England and America is of special interest as a sympathetic attempt to explain our institutions to the Middle West. He says that of all America's Allies "England is, on the whole, regarded with the least favour by the Americans of the Middle West," and he ascribes this regrettable fact partly to the large Irish and German elements in the population, partly to preju- dice against men who are not foreigners and yet have an unfamiliar accent and un-American tastes in clothes and humour, partly to a lack of historical perspective in emphasizing the wars of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and ignoring the Hundred Years' Peace, partly also to ignorance of the fact that Great Britain under a King is as democratic a country as America itself. Professor Conyers Read's paper will, we trust, persuade readers in the Middle West that we are not so black as we are painted by the. Irish and German propagandists. The American soldiers from the Middle West, who are coming here by the hundred thousand, will find that
out for themselves.
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