At San Diego—we are taking these details from the Morning
Post—he was received with a full admiral's salute. The writer of the account says: "A retired British Admiral, travelling as a private citizen, to receive full honours from a Navy other than his own ! This is some measure of the respect in which he must be held in the United States Navy." The Tribune, in describing ,the demonstrations which were continued in New York and will no doubt be continued in Washington and elsewhere, says :—
" The truth is simply that the two English-speaking nations, for all their occasional surface irritations, are bound for the same port and sailing by the same stars, and only insane folly, in addition to the evilest of propaganda, can ever bring them into serious controversy."
We hear a great deal about the antagonism and the mutual dislike between the American and the British peoples. All we can say is that if what we have described is an expression of the dislike, we must desire to hate one another more. Let us go on with this hate—we cannot have too much of it.
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