In Tuesday Mr. BaldWin opened Dartmouth House the new headquarters
of the English-Speaking Union. He was particularly happy in his definition of the right temper in which to maintain friendly relations with the United States. He deprecated what Mr. Roosevelt used to call " mush." " It cannot really be a comfort to ourselves, and it causes the enemy to blaspheme." Those who believed, as he did, that the union of the English-speaking peoples was essential for the peace of the world, ought to give themselves to the education of their own countrymen rather than to criticizing the other nation whose customs and habits of thought were still imperfectly understood. Mr. Baldwin referred to the remarkable change in the methods of historical writing in America, and to the friendly arrangements between Great • Britain and America in connexion with Prohibition.
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