The Prime Minister was the principal guest at the annual
dinner of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust in Oxford last Saturday. In his speech he referred to the danger which our hard-built civilization runs of cracking, and said that the whole world looked to the English-speaking peoples to save what was left. Four qualities he finds are characteristic of England and America. A respect for justice, a love of political freedom, a sense of demo- cracy which values a man for himself and not for his circumstances, and finally a spiritual freedom. These qualities, he considered, fitted us, and in " us " he included America, to mend the world. Mr. Baldwin did not suggest that this would be an easy task. Indeed, he would scarcely have become Prime Minister if he thought so ; he maintained only that, if it could be done at all, the English-speaking peoples must do it.
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