the
nation with a statue of Frederick the Great and Harvard with a Germanic
museum; he ordered a Herreshoff yacht, and asked the President's
daughter, Alice Roosevelt, to christen it; he established exchange
professorships in the universities; and he began a campaign aimed
apparently at securing for Germany the support of the entire American
people, or, failing that, at organizing for German purposes the
German-born element within the United States. France sought to revive
the memory of her friendship for the United States during the Revolution
by presenting the nation with a statue of Rochambeau, and she also
established exchange professorships. In England, Cecil Rhodes, with
his great dream of drawing together all portions of the British race,
devoted his fortune to making Oxford the mold where all its leaders of
thought and action should be shaped; and Joseph Chamberlain and other
English leaders talked freely and enthusiastically of an alliance
between Great Britain and the United States as the surest foundation for
world peace.

It need not be supposed, however, that these international amenities
meant that the United States was to be allowed to have its own way in
the world. The friendliness of Great Britain was indeed sincere.
Engaged between 1899 and 1901 in the Boer War, she appreciated ever
more strongly the need for the friendship of the United States, and she
looked with cordial approbation upon the development of Secretary
Hay's policy in China. The British, however, like the Americans, are
legalistically inclined, and disputes between the two nations are likely
to be maintained to the limit of the law. The advantage of this legal
mindedness is that there has always been a disposition in both peoples
to submit to judicial award when ordinary negotiations have reached
a deadlock. But the real affection for each other which underlay the
eternal bickerings of the two nations had as yet not revealed itself to
the American consciousness. As most of the disputes of the United States
had been with Great Britain, Americans were always on the alert to
maintain all their claims and were suspicious of "British gold."

It was, therefore, in an atmosphere by no means conducive to yielding
on the part of the United States, though it was one not antagonistic to
good feeling, that the representatives of the two countries met. John
Hay and Sir Julian Pauncefote, whose long quiet service in this country
had made him the f