We do not wish, of course, to exaggerate the importance
of newspaper comment, but in this case we can hardly doubt that it represents American opinion. In the first place, the sympathies of the two nations which compose the English- speaking race are always closer in moments of peril than at any other time. Further, America realises instinctively that if Germany instead of Britain were to possess the command of the sea, the results of the change must be very grave. America, like the rest of the World, knows that we have never ueed the sovereignty of the sea selfishly or oppressively, or employed it for ignoble ends, We cannot doubt that if tho nations of the world could be polled, though each nation in theory might desire the sceptre of the seas for itself, the vaat majority would declare that if they could not have it for themselves, they would rather it should lie in the hands of Britain than in those of any other State.
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