It is, perhaps, early days to talk about a formal federation of the Anglo-Saxon people, but I think I am only voicing the sentiments of every good American when I say that, if the rumours which have drifted over and under the Atlantic, rumours of a determined attempt on the part of certain European powers to assault and, if possible, destroy that magnificent fortress of individual liberty and collective equity which we call the British Empire should unhappily prove to be true, then it may be that the rest of the world will find that America does not speak English for nothing.
"But I must also remind you that a few yards from the doors of the White House there lies the greatest marvel, I had almost said the greatest miracle, that has ever been accomplished by human genius and human industry.

That wonderful vessel in which some of us have been privileged to take the most marvellous journey in the history of mechanical locomotion was thought out by an American man of science, the man whose daughter sits on my right hand to-night.

In her concrete material form this vessel, destined to navigate the shoreless Ocean of Space, is English.

But she is also the result of the belief and the faith of an Englishman in an American ideal....

So when she leaves this earth, as she will do in an hour or so, to enter the confines of other worlds than this--and, it may be, to make the acquaintance of peoples other than those who inhabit the earth--she will have done infinitely more than she has already done, incredible as that seems.