ANGLO-SAXON POSSIBILITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 11701, 6 October 1902, Page 2

ANGLO-SAXON POSSIBILITIES.

Baron Pierre, de Coubertin,'a member of the Chamber of Deputies, regarded iu France n - cl , c .*!'-haaded man, has an article- in the tans ingaro' in which he speaks of the of aU Anglo-Saxon confederation. "There would be tremendous prestige and advantage, of course, in being the direction power of thi New World ; but a more fertile and glorious ambition is that of beconun" the key-stone of the gigantic Anglo-Saxon edifice. For a lon- period attentive observers have realised the decrease of traditional and fonnal animosities, giving place to sympathies between.the Americans and the English, which, though delayed by material interests^;. re growing to their fullest blodm. • . . England has become tho British Empire, and is in a fair way to become ihe Angio-Saxon confederation. In this eeeond transformation the United States are involved much more deeply than is generally supposed. What, ties can equal those caused by a common language, the same soul, and

au^idenfeal ',' conception of moral and social duty? . v . Commercial harmony, difficult to-day, will perhaps be easy to-morrow. In any case, little by Kttle, the United States aro being forced by destiny into the first tank of tin's giant group. ... A few Wore year* and this fact will fttafcd out pla-nly. Let Australia be attacked then, let Scuth Africa be threatened, let any trouble break over Great Britain, and you will see that, as they say at banquets, 'blood is thicker than water,' and that the starred banner has become, par excellence, the Hag of the Anglo-Saxons. And at Washington, you may be sure that, for the defencoofthat flag, cannon will be readily forthcoming." Could an Englishman or an American utter a more flattering propheey ?—'Harper's Weekly.