"_Anglo-Saxon Superiority! Although we do not all acknowledge it, we all have to bear it, and we all dread it; the apprehension, the suspicion, and sometimes the hatred provoked by l'Anglais proclaim the fact loudly enough. We cannot go one step in the world without coming across the Anglo-Saxon. . . . He rules America by Canada and the United States; Africa by Egypt and the Cape; Asia by India and Burmah; Australasia by Australia and New Zealand; Europe and the whole world, by his trade and industries and by his policy._"--M. Edmond Demolins in _Anglo-Saxon Superiority_ "_A quoi tient la Superiorite des Anglo-Saxons?_" "_It may be asking too much, but if statesmanship could kindly arrange it, I confess I should like to see, before I die, a war in which Britain and the United States in a just quarrel might tackle the world. After that we should have no more difficulty about America. For if the Americans never forget an injury, they ever remember a service._"--The late G. W. Steevens in _The Land of the Dollar_. The Twentieth Century American CHAPTER I AN ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE The Avoidance of Entangling Alliances--What the Injunction Meant--What it Cannot Mean To-day--The Interests of the United States, no less than those of England, Demand an Alliance--But Larger Interests than those of the Two Peoples are Involved-- American Responsiveness to Ideals--The Greatest Ideal of All, Universal Peace: the Practicability of its Attainment-- America's Responsibility--Misconceptions of the British Empire--Germany's Position--American Susceptibilities.