[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Reading Mr. Peter D.
Thomas's letter in the Spectator of November 5th made me anxious to give you the imprassions I have gained of the feeling in America to-day regarding a serious dispute with Britain.
Since I-came to live in America eighteen months ago, I have travelled thirty thousand miles on thicontinent from Atlantic to Pacific, and have heard no criticism of England which could lead one to believe that the thought of war is in the minds of the American people. Of course, one takes account of, and discounts, the rantings of William Hale Thompson, Mayor of Chicago, and his attendant satellites. 'The Americans are practical and cannot see how it would be to their economic interests to have any serious falling out with Great Britain. Besides, there is a large amount of real friendliness for the British among responsible people in all districts which does not seem to get its right share of comment in England to-day.
If there were feelings of the kind your correspondent men- tions, I very much doubt whether an eminent English journa- list, speaking in this country recently on the question of international peace, would have filled his meetings with several hundred people early in the morning, nor would he have failed to receive one adverse criticism from the sensational section of the Press of America during the whole of his tour of Eastern and Middle Western cities.—I am, Sir, &c., CATIIERINE LAW COLWELL. Bewlay, Box 122, Madison, N.J., U.S.A.
[We agree with the writer. There is more genuine friend. ship for Great Britain than ever there was. It is a pity that stay-at-home British people, who do not know America at first hand, imagine that Mayor Thompson, of Chicago, is representative of American feeling.—En. Spectator.]
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