We cannot find space to quote more examples of America's
indignant protests, but we must express our sense of profes- sional pride that our newspaper colleagnee in America have struck so clear and unhesitating a note. We have dealt elsewhere with the great dangers and anxieties caused by the American Government's lack of understanding of the present temper of the British people, and by their belief that we are in a mood to let slip our opportunities for beating the Germans in order that we may remake rules of international law in a way convenient to the traders of the United States, though contrary to all previous American teachings as to those rules. There is danger in the air, and danger which we fear must continue, even in spite of America's generous protests against particular examples of German inhumanity. Nevertheless, we should be ingrates if we did not, quite apart from all matters of controversy, salute the American Press for the generosity and chivalrous feeling which it has displayed. These things touch all our hearts and will not be forgotten even if—which may God in His mercy avert—the United States should be destined to be our enemy in the near future.
