le and obvious
fact, the longest step would be taken for human advancement that
has been taken since 1776. If Carnegie, or, after he is gone, his
Peace People could see this, his Trust might possibly do some good.

2. As the world stands, the United States and Great Britain must
work together and stand together to keep the predatory nations in
order. A League to Enforce Peace and the President's idea of
disentangling alliances are all in the right direction, but vague
and general and cumbersome, a sort of bastard children of
Neutrality. _The_ thing, the _only_ thing is--a perfect
understanding between the English-speaking peoples. That's
necessary, and that's all that's necessary. We must boldly take the
lead in that. I frankly tell my friends here that the English have
got to throw away their damned arrogance and their insularity and
that we Americans have got to throw away our provincial ignorance
("What is abroad to us?"), hang our Irish agitators and shoot our
hyphenates and bring up our children with reverence for English
history and in the awe of English literature. This is the only job
now in the world worth the whole zeal and energy of all
first-class, thoroughbred English-speaking men. _We_ must lead. We
are natural leaders. The English must be driven to lead. Item: We
must get their lads into our universities, ours into theirs. They
don't know how to do it, except the little driblet of Rhodes men.
Think this out, remembering what fools we've been about exchange
professors with Germany! How much good could Fons Smith[37] do in a
thousand years, on such an errand as he went on to Berlin? And the
English don't know _how_ to do it. They are childish (in some
things) beyond belief. An Oxford or Cambridge man never thinks of
going back to his university except about twice a lifetime when his
college formally asks him to come and dine. Then he dines as
docilely as a scared Freshman. I am a D.C.L. of Oxford. I know a
lot of their faculty. They are hospitality itself. But I've never
yet found out one important fact about the university. They never
tell me. I've been down at Cambridge time and again and stayed with
the Master of one of the colleges. I can no more get at what they
do and how they do it than I could get at the real meaning of a