Admiral Sims told the English-Speaking Union on Tuesday that the
British public underrated the strength of their friends in America. The Sulgrave Institute and similar societies, with 18,000,000 members — " all Americans " —were working for better relations with Great Britain. Admiral Sims went on to say once again that Sinn Fein had hampered America in the war, and that " the sympathizers with Sinn Fein in America had the blood of both British and American boys on their hands." " They were Americans when they wanted money, but they were Sinn Feiners when they were on the platform." Admiral Sims recalled his prediction of 1910 that, if Great Britain were assailed by a European combination, America would come to her aid, and he ventured further to predict that " the English- speaking peoples were coming together, and that he would live to see the day when this round globe would be run on an English- speaking policy." Admiral Sims is a true friend ; we believe that his forecast will once again be justified. Of course his plain speaking about Ireland is raising in America the clamour that was only to be expected.
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