THE UNITED STATES AND 'OURSELVES. ITO THE EDITOR OF THE
"SPECTATOR."] Saa,—The Spectator of June 14th reached your readers in this country a few days ago. On p. 753 is a most enlightening article entitled "The United States and Ourselves." This article on p. 754 contains the following passages :— "If an Englishman went on to express more of his secret thoughts, he might tell his American friends that misgiving has been caused here by the report that the United States Government contemplate keeping all the important German ships which happened to be interned in American ports before America came into the war. Our plain man asks why Great Britain should not be recouped in proportion to her terrible shipping losses, which exceed by something like four times the losses of all the other Allies put together."
Something like the same thought has occurred to plain men in this country also. And I thought that an expression in harmony with your thought, which was penned here more than two years ago, might be of interest. I am accordingly enclosing a newspaper clipping which I hope speaks for itself.
The same practice as that alluded to in the article as obtaining in our Probate procedure also exists in Bankruptcy practice, although the Federal Bankruptcy Act has almost entirely done away with Bankruptcy cases in the Courts of our several States.
The analogy between the international situation with respect to the interned ships and that of a bankrupt or a deceased person in one of our States is not so far-fetched, since the States are for some purposes spoken of as Sovereign States.— I am, Sir, &c., WALTER J. Lana. 908 Union Trust Building, Providence, R.I., July 16th.
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