Colonel House has given us his views on the proposed
confer- ence on disarmament and on the Pacific at Washington next govember. He telegraphs from London a message to the Philadelphia Public Ledger in which he insists on the important influence that the Dominion Premiers are beginning to exercise on the Empire's foreign policy, and predicts that this influence will greatly facilitate Anglo-American rapprochement, since " they (the peoples of the dominions) understand us better than the British, as indeed our people understand them better." Superficially, there is certainly some truth in this. The common causes (a new country to populate, a wild nature to subdue, a clear field in which to raise up a new civilization) which the Americans and the peoples of the Dominions all have, must naturally produce common effects and characteristics such as hardiness (mental and physical), independence of outside influence, and extreme dependence on the good opinion of each other.
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