5 MARCH 1904, Page 13

OUR FOREIGN POLICY.

rro TUB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—.Your article in the Spectator of February 27th on "Our Foreign Policy" is exceedingly wise and timely. No thinking person can doubt that the danger you point out exists, and may very possibly soon develop itself. But what about America ? The Americans are not fools. They know per- fectly well that if Great Britain is detested in Germany and other parts of the Continent, America is detested in a squared and cubed ratio. And they, further, are quite aware that were Great Britain to be brought to her knees by this hostile combi- nation, their own position would be an exceedingly awkward one. Proximus Ucalegon is probably not wholly ignored by the United States.—I am, Sir, &c.,

DENis Knox.

Rectory, Virginia, Ireland.