ABSTRACT

The creation of a sentiment of solidarity among the peoples of the English-speaking world will do more to improve international relations generally and to hasten the era of a durable world peace than any other concrete proposal that has been advanced. The advocates of an English-speaking union base their hopes of its fruition upon the assumption that the United States and the British self-governing dominions are predominantly English in their blood, culture, and sympathies. The World War touched the soul of the English-speaking peoples, and the sacrifices necessary to victory were consented to, in Great Britain and the dominions as in the United States, because of the moral indignation of the people and their responsiveness to the crusader appeal. Most thinking Americans, after a review of world politics during the past century and after the experiences of the World War, agree that the British Empire and the United States ought to face the future together.