AMERICA AND THE WAR.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
Stu,—The following extract from a letter just received from a friend in Boston, U.S.A., may be of interest to your readers as showing the state of American feeling with regard to the
present war :— " You would be surprised if you could know how strong and general the feeling is against the Germans here. You would think that we were engaged in the war ourselves. The phrases used imply that we think we are. The news is better to-day,' It looks much better for our side,' one hears from the groups at the country railway stations in the morning since the tide turned against the Germans. The street is crowded opposite the news- paper offices watching for the latest bulletins of the war. People that one only knows by sight stop one to express their hopes of German defeat. The common people seem to have the same senti- ment. The boy in the lift said with glee yesterday, ' The Germane are getting it now,' and the old postman volunteered his opinion with the remark, 4I haven't got no use for the Kaiser.' In fact the feeling is so general that I wonder why it is so. We occasionally hear that one of our friends has pro-German sympathies, but these can always be traced to some social relationship that accounts for them."
5 Strathray Gardens, N.W.
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