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They will find, however, that the United States is not as wholly Anglo-Saxon as Col. Harvey may have indicated. Many Americans cling to their British ancestry with increasing pride, but an element of growing numbers has nothing in common with the British but their language. The Germans, Italians, Jews and Slavic peoples who have been immigrating in steady streams, have no national cordiality for England; and these transplanted colonies have failed to accept the prevailing traditions and friendships,--which are essentially British. Anglo-American kinship, once close, has become more and more remote...
...this dilution of the British-descended population merely necessitates greater efforts toward mutual understanding. Association must, in the future, develop the sympathy which has hitherto resulted from the ties of blood. And whatever regrets one may feel at the decrease in the proportion of Anglo-Saxon Americans should be diverted to efforts, such as Mrs. Davison's, to perpetuate Anglo-American unity...
...current Atlantic Monthly contains an article by the brilliant Dean of St. Paul's, London, discussing the Catholic Church and the Anglo-Saxon mind. He makes it his purpose to examine whether or not Protestantism is a spent force. He points out that although the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Established Church in England is strong among the clergy, especially in Canterbury, yet the movement has but a weak hold on the laity. "But," he adds, "a schismatical Catholic Church is a contradiction in terms. The (Anglo-Catholic) movement will probably end by enriching Protestantism with such romantic...
...excavations at Meroe were begun in 1920, were continued last winter, and may be completed this year, according to the report, which will appear in full in the next Bulletin of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Meroe is in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, not very far from Khartum. It is over six hundred miles south of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, where the discovery of King Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb was recently made...
...Matin (edited by Stephen Lausanne, a welcome guest in many American homes), the semi-official Temps, the Midi, the Liberte. The text, as a rule, is either the Washington limitation of armaments plan or the debts. Exhibit "A" from the Liberte: " We were the victims at Washington of an Anglo-American combination and two questions of money prevent us from escaping...