It does stand on behalf of all sensible and responsible
Britons and friends of America. It is with shame that we have seen lately in a part of the British Press that appeals to the less educated reader, what we can only call anti-American incitements. Those who are responsible for them may not be conscious of what they are doing. They are lowering standards to the level of Mr. Hearst's anti-British Press during the War, which pained the best Americans ; or to the level of the riff-raff of Paris which is engaged in frightening American travellers by demon- strations of indiscriminate dislike, to the disgust of the best Frenchmen. We hope that Americans do not think that we are fairly represented as a people who " squeal " at paying bills that we have promised to pay. Above all we hope they do not think that we forget what else we owe to the States. We all wish they could have come earlier into the War, but sensible people know what were the difficulties of moving that great population into any- thing like unanimous action. We remember gratefully the effect on the German people, apart from the army, of the American declaration of war. We know too that the financial help that came in 1917 and onward was then of such value that we would have thankfully undertaken to repay it on any terms.
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