It is unlikely that the Americans would welcome any considerable addition to the power of England.

But such would be the case if Great Britain succeeded in inflicting a political and military defeat on Germany.
For a time it seemed as if the Anglo-American negotiations about Arbitration Courts would definitely end in an alliance against Germany.
There has, at any rate, been a great and widespread agitation against us in the United States.

The Americans of German and Irish stock resolutely opposed it, and it is reasonable to assume that the anti-German movement in the United States was a passing phase, with no real foundation in the nature of things.

In the field of commerce there is, no doubt, keen competition between the two countries, especially in South America; there is, however, no reason to assume that this will lead to political complications.
Japan has, for the time being, a direct political interest for us only in her influence on the affairs of Russia, America, England, and China.
In the Far East, since Japan has formed an alliance with England, and seems recently to have effected an arrangement with Russia, we have to count more on Japanese hostility than Japanese friendship.

Her attitude to China may prove exceptionally important to our colonial possessions in East Asia.