The new American Ambassador, Mr. Alanson B. Houghton, has arrived
in London and has been received with that special welcome which is reserved for an Ambassador from the other part of the English-speaking world. Mr. Houghton has a peculiar combination of accomplishments. A business man of great experience, his voluntary interests have been mainly in letters and public affairs. As he comes from Berlin where he has watched the long but recently rapid recovery of Germany,. his knowledge of German affairs will be very helpful here. The literary tradition has run strongly through American Ambassadors in London and we confidently._ expect that Mr. Houghton will maintain it. We look tc an American Ambassador primarily to serve his own country, and we should not respect him if he did not but we arc glad to know that in Mr. Houghton's opinion the aims of America and Great Britain are usually identical. Even if there should be disagreements we should still have the satisfaction of feeling that American Ambassadors never forget that the links of history, literature, law and ethics which bind us together are inviolable.
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