THE Thames Star. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1923. THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, 22 August 1923, Page 4

THE Thames Star.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1923. THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE.

-With malice towards none with charity for all, with „ tup right, as God firmness in tne gives us to see the right. Lincoln. .

The annual dinner ol the Modes Scholarship Trust at Oxford aftorded the Prime Minister a great opportunity again to emphasise the commen fellowship of Great Britain and America, and his faith in the v.nhtj and destiny of the ■Enslish-speak.ng peoples as the servant of the world in the common aims of peace and -justice. He was addressing about 3QO Rhodes scholars, past and present, all representative the British Empire and the United States of America. Mr. Baldwin’s gift o lianpv speech did not fail him. e depicted the whole world,, consciously or unconsciously, not vocally, none the less in reality, as looking for salvation from the British Empire and the United States of America. He attributed the confidence and expectation of other nationalities in and from the Anglo-Saxon race to its possession of four qualities: An innate sense of justice. The valuation of a man for what he is. A high sense of political freedom, Besides and beyond political freedom the love of spiritual freedom and a belief in God, and in the responsibility not only of the individual, but of the nations, for his action and their actions on the earth. He said further-“ Now, I believe, although others might perhaps enlarge on this subject, that in those four principles that I have laid down you have the fundamental principles that guide all our people alike. You have that consistent product of the stock which gives you, in my belief, the strength of character which gives people the feeling that we can be trusted, that we are a support, and that gives us the opportunity of service to the world. If there is building up to do in the world it is we in the long run who will have to do that building, and whether the time is come now, or whether it is in the future let every one <?f' us here cherish at least that ideal, in the firm conviction that sooner or later opportunity will be given to us for its realisation. But for the men who have to lay their hands to that task they will want the courage of a Pitt and the. faith of a Lincoln.” It was the farsighted generosity of Cecil Rhodes that made such a gathering as the Prime Minister addressed at Oxford possible. Men were there, the puked of the race as being youn< v men of great mentalitv strong phvsioue and clean life. These came from all quarters of the earth. Mew Zealand in her sons was there. Every State in America had a representative. What a splendid realisation of the vision, patriotism, and world loyalty of a great man.