It is towards that development that events now move. It has its danger in that there may be a growing brusqueness in British negotiations in the Pacific. The Dominions of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (I include Canada because all the indications are that she will now fall into line with the other Pacific British nations), paying so much to the piper, will want to call the tune: and whereas British diplomacy with the United States is to-day a shade too deferential, Australasian and Canadian diplomacy possibly will fall into the other error. Experience, of course, will cure the impatience of youth in time. But it is important that at the outset there should be no occasions for bad feeling. A friendly informal conference between Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, ushering in the opening of the Panama Canal, would provide an opportunity for beginning the frank discussion which is needed. The position in the Pacific confronting such a conference would be this: that friendly co-operation between the United States and Great Britain would give to the Anglo-Saxon race the mastery of the world's greatest ocean, laying for ever the fear of the Yellow Peril, securing for the world that its greatest readjustment of the balance of power shall be effected in peace: but that rivalry between these two kindred nations may cause the gravest evils, and possibly irreparable disasters. THE END INDEX Acadia (_see_ Nova Scotia). Adriatic, the, 41. Ainus, the, 35, 138. Albuquerque takes Malacca, 96. Alexander the Great, 21, 103. Alliance between Great Britain and Japan, 39, 42, 199 _et seq._ Amber, the Arabian search for, 22. America: a "New France" in, 165. American bureau, the, 272, 273. conferences, 272, 273. diplomacy, 224, 275, 276. --educated Chinese, 53, 54. Empire, growth of, 69. Imperial system, an, 12, 161, 164. Imperialism and the Filipinos, 82. national temper, the, 67. naval bases, 224. "relationship talk," 277. War of Independence, the, 86. Andes, the, 151. Anglo-Celtic alliance, an, 14, 15. race and the British Dominions, 278. race best equipped for world dominance, 267. Anglo-Saxon, the Elizabethan, 69, 148. Anson, Admiral, 91. Apia Harbour, Samoa, 215. Arabians search for amber, 22. Arabs and the Baltic, 22. Argentine Republic, the, 150, 160, 162. army of, 197. navy of, 183. Armies of the Pacific: Argentine, 197. Australian, 191. Bolivian, 197. Brazilian, 197. British, 191. Canadian, 191. Chinese, 190. Colombian, 198. Ecuador, 198. Indian, 191. Japanese, 189. Mexican, 197. New Zealand, 191. Paraguay, 198. Russian, 186, 187. South American, 198. United States, 190. Aryans, the, 21. _Asahi Shimbun_, the, 46. Asia, arrogance of, 40. for the Asiatics, 241, 264.