AMERICA "LOST HER SOUL"

Nelson Evening Mail, 4 August 1916, Page 8

AMERICA "LOST HER SOUL"

EARL GREY ON HER NEGLECTED DUTY TO HUMANITY.

Iu the course of an interview with Mr Edward Marshall, published in the New York Sun, Earl Grev, who was Governor General of Canada, says: "That your naton is not standing side by side with mine in this great struggle appears to me, I confess, an anomaly, for it is my •belief that British and American ideals are the same. What weighs down my heart at present is the fact that the official attitude of America to the war may postpone the of my cherished ideal of a close Anglo-Ameri-can concert for the protection of mank:nd. It was from my friend Andrew Carnegie that I learned that the best wav to secure the peace of the world would be through the establishment of „ general readiness of the civilised nations to wage .universal war for universal peace, and through the collective employment of an organised force for the arrest and punishment of the violators of international lights. I have always regarded that as an essentially American idea—the thought that every natioß must contribute its proper share of force towards the maintenance of international law. Your attitude may make other nations unwilling to cooperate with vou in the future. I am sure the majority of your people wish to act in accordance with ethical motives, but in this supreme crisis it appears to me that you have fa-led, thereby (making the greatest mistake in history. Belgium has lost everything except her soul. - What shall be said of America?"