AMERICA AND THE WAR.
[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—I am enclosing a clipping from the Boston Transcript, reproduced from the New York Times. It shows in a plain, unemotional way bow the pare-blooded descendants of English emigrants felt about giving their country support in a time of great trial. Among all my personal friends, and even among my business acquaintances, I know of only one man (not a German) who does not believe in the justice of the Allies' cause and hope for their success. As a constant reader of the Spectator, I know how clearly you have pointed out our own state of unpreparedness against aggression, and warned us of the logical result. It is therefore with much satisfaction I can assure you that we, as a people, are in a way realizing the danger and preparing to combat it, as you may judge from the second clipping I enclose.--I am, Sir, 8w.,
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