at would be taken by the three Americans and the two
Canadians it was evident from the first that the trial was really
before Lord Alverstone. In case he sustained the American contention
there would be an end of the controversy; in case he sustained the
Canadian view, there would be an even division, and matters would stand
where they stood when the trial began except that a great deal more
feeling would have been engendered and the United States might have had
to make good its claims by force. Fortunately Lord Alverstone agreed
with the three Americans on the main points involved in the
controversy. The decision was, of course, a disappointment to the
Canadians and it was charged that Lord Alverstone had sacrificed their
interest in order to further the British policy of friendly relations
with the United States.

At the beginning of the Great War the interference of the British navy
with cargoes consigned to Germany at once aroused the latent
anti-British feeling in this country. Owing to the fact that cotton
exports were so largely involved the feeling against Great Britain was
even stronger in the Southern States than in the Northern. The State
Department promptly protested against the naval policy adopted by Great
Britain, and the dispute might have assumed very serious proportions
had not Germany inaugurated her submarine campaign. The dispute with
England involved merely property rights, while that with Germany
involved the safety and lives of American citizens. The main feature
of British policy, that is, her application of the doctrine of
continuous voyage, was so thoroughly in line with the policy adopted by
the United States during the Civil War that the protests of our State
Department were of little avail. In fact Great Britain merely carried
the American doctrine to its logical conclusions.

We have undertaken in this brief review of Anglo-American relations to
outline the more important controversies that have arisen between the
two countries. They have been sufficiently numerous and irritating to
jeopardize seriously the peace which has so happily subsisted for one
hundred years between the two great members of the English-speaking
family. After all, they have not been based on any fundamental
conflict of policy, but have been for the most part superficial and in
many cases the result of bad manners. In this connection Lord Bryce
makes the following interesting observations:

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