The University of Chicago war papers Author:University of Chicago Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: COPYUOBT 1glg B The Umvntsrrr o Chicaoo Published June 1918 Full permission to reprint Is gtTWl lo the E TEE UN IVKUHITY OF CHICAGO PBES8 CHICAGO, IL... more »LINOIS THI BIKER TAYLOR COMPAKT THE CAMBRIDGE UNITERSITY PRESS LONDON AND EDInURSB THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKT-KAISRA TOKYO, OUKA, KYOTO, rUKUOEA, BIKDAS THE MISSION BOOK COMPANY ENGLAND AND AMERICA Among the Allies of the United States on the Western Front in France, England is on the whole regarded with least favor by the Americans of the Middle West. This is probably to be explained in part by the fact that two large elements in our foreign-born population, the Germans and the Irish, are and long have been violently anti-English. No doubt it is to be explained in part also by the facts of our national history as they have been set forth in the school textbooks of the last generation. Most of us who contribute to the formation of public sentiment were brought up to regard England primarily as the enemy of our national liberties in the Revolution and the violator of our rights of trade in the War of 1812. When the French sent Lafayette and even the Germans von Steuben to fight on our side, England sent Lord Howe and Lord Cornwallis to subdue us. Facts like these are bred in our bones, and they furnish excellent material to the German sympathizers for the development of anti-English sentiment among us. In a certain measure also this sentiment is fostered by the English themselves. We do not see many Englishmen in the Middle West, and the chance one whom we are likely to encounter proves on the whole to be uncongenial to our middle-western temper. He is not a likable fellow according to our standards. He speaks our language, but with a difference, and generally with precisely that sort of a difference wh...« less