10 OCTOBER 1914, Page 10

A WORD TO AMERICA.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "BrICTATOR:'] SI31,—Permit me, as an American, to express my gratitude for your wise and outspoken article, entitled " A Word to America," in your issue of September 12th. Without entering into the merits of your argument (with which I fully agree), and with entire loyalty to American neutrality, I believe such sincere and frank expressions of opinion to be invaluable in helping us to understand one another, and in strengthening the bonds of Anglo-Saxon sympathy in the fundamentals of our civilization—namely, respect for law and the protection of the weak and innocent. The conqueror of the future will not be he who can best "crush " and destroy his enemies by brute force, but he who can see with the eyes of those who disagree with him, and constructively build up international