_The_ thing, the _only_ thing is--a perfect understanding between the English-speaking peoples.

That's necessary, and that's all that's necessary.

We must boldly take the lead in that.

I frankly tell my friends here that the English have got to throw away their damned arrogance and their insularity and that we Americans have got to throw away our provincial ignorance ("What is abroad to us ?"), hang our Irish agitators and shoot our hyphenates and bring up our children with reverence for English history and in the awe of English literature.

This is the only job now in the world worth the whole zeal and energy of all first-class, thoroughbred English-speaking men.