Mr. Page, the American Ambassador, delivered at Plymouth last Saturday
one of the few very great speeches that have been made in this war. He invoked the memory of the Pilgrim Fathers, in whose spirit America bad consecrated herself to the task of stamping out the military despotism which threatened liberty the world over. The "great by-product of the war" was the closer coming together of the two great English-speaking parts of the world. Americans had kept the racial and national characteristics of Britain. " Politically two peoples, in all high aims and in the love of freedom we are one, and must remain one for ever." Mr. Page paid a high compliment to Lord Grey of Fallodon and Mr. Balfour for their tactful dealing with America while she was neutraL He urged most strongly that the two peoples should strive to know each other better, so that the close understanding should rest on something more durable than Ministries which come and go. No summary could do justice to this model speech, so frank and clear that it cannot give rise to any misunderstanding. It ought to be reprinted in pamphlet form and circulated by the million on both sides of the Atlantic.
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