All this is pertinent to the recent discussion, started in England, of a possible alliance of England, the United States, and Italy to enforce some regard for the rudiments of civilisation nion the Sultan at Constantinople who takes advantage of the jealous. political cornbin. ations of the European Powers to.ountinue the work of Armenian massacre and pillage which was begun some eighteen months ago... The project of such an alliance was first broached in the St, James's Gazette and is credited with being the outcome of a suggestion from the Prince of Wales, who is much interested in the critical situation in which his country now finds itself, This disposition of the Prince to look to America for assistance is but the emphasis of the view of an eminent English statesman at the beginning of the Armenian atrocities, who remarked that while the project of an Anglo-American alliance against Turkey must be considered as chimerienl, it nevertheless is true that there are but two nations in the world, the United States and Great Britain, that ever have rived blood and treasure in defence of an altruistic sentiment. He alluded to the civil war in this country and to the emancipation of slaves in all the British possessions and to the millions of money and hundreds of lives that Britain has' given for the suppression of the African slave trade, Some of the British journals argue for an Anglo-American alliance upon the false ground of American dislike for Russia, Never was assumption more false, In the time of this nation's great trial Russia alone among the European Powers was actively friendly. The British governing class was as actively unfriendly. But while the American people cherish no hostility towards Great, Britain, the feeling of friendship towards Russia' is warm throughout the United States.
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