BRITAIN’S ALLIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 18 August 1914, Page 4

BRITAIN’S ALLIES.

A writer in the Dominion points out that at present Britain is allied in* Europe and Asia with ancient foes; bli- there is nothing stranger in that than in the fighting friendship of Germany with Austria, her earltoi victim; or in the inclusion of Italy in the Triple Alliance with Austria, her former despoiler; or in German patronage of Turkey, • for whom Drench blood was so freely shed in the Crimean war. Since no one knows what a year may bring forth internationally, no one who is at all cautious will prophesy about it. Circumstances have always complicated relationships, and will do so until (if ever) the war-drum ceases to throb — though even then the incalculable hotch-potch will probably continue in diplomatic form. Evidences of permanency are discernible, however, in the sustained loyalty of the British Empire. The Empire has undergone no losses through secession or (with the remote instance of India) seriously attempted secession, and its record of uninterrupted homogeneity is unparalleled. And we may not conceit ourselves in adding to all this the United State’s ever-growing recognition of a British community of interest.