17 FEBRUARY 1917, Page 17

BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Yon may care to print the concluding words of the novel Richard Carve', by Winston Churchill, as bearing upon the present situation between the United States and this country: " I pray God . . . . that the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack may one day float together to cleanse this world of tyranny."