cessary to circle the United States with a girdle of
lies. With America true to the great policy of her great founder,
an America, "the friend of all powers but the ally of none," English
designs against European civilization must in the end fail. Those
plans can succeed only by active American support, and to secure this
is now the supreme task and aim of British stealth and skill. Every
tool of her diplomacy, polished and unpolished, from the trained
envoy to the boy scout and the minor poet has been tried in turn. The
pulpit, the bar, the press; the society hostess, the Cabinet Minister
and the Cabinet Minister's wife, the ex-Cabinet Minister and the Royal
Family itself, and last, but not least, even "Irish nationality"--all
have been pilgrims to that shrine; and each has been carefully primed,
loaded, well aimed, and then turned full on the weak spots in the
armour of republican simplicity. To the success of these resources
of panic the falsification of history becomes essential and the
vilification of the most peace-loving people of Europe. The past
relations of England with the United States are to be blotted out,
and the American people who are by blood so largely Germanic, are to
be entrapped into an attitude of suspicion, hostility and resentment
against the country and race from whom they have received nothing
but good. Germany is represented as the enemy, not to England's
indefensible claim to own the seas, but to American ideals on the
American continent. Just as the Teuton has become the "enemy of
civilization" in the Old World because he alone has power, strength of
mind, and force of purpose to seriously dispute the British hegemony
of the seas, so he is assiduously represented as the only threat to
American hegemony of the New World.

This, the key note of the attack on Germany, is sounded from every
corner of the British Empire, wherever the Imperial editor, resting on
the labours of the lash he wields against the coloured toilers in mine
and camp, directs his eyes from the bent forms of these indentured
slaves of dividend to the erect and stalwart frames of the new Goths
who threaten the whole framework of Imperial dividend from across
the North Sea. From the _Times_ to the obscurest news-sheet of the
remotest corner of the British Dominions the word has gone forth.

The Monroe Doctrine, palladium of the Anglo-Saxon world empire, is
imperilled by German ambitions, and were it not for the British
flee