PREFACE 



UNDER the happiest auspices and with the 

 hearty co-operation of the leaders of opinion 

 throughout the British Empire and in the 

 United States, plans have been made for an 

 adequate and dignified celebration of the im 

 pressive fact that for one hundred years the 

 English-speaking peoples throughout the world 

 have been at peace with one another. The 

 impressiveness of this fact is heightened by the 

 circumstances leading up to and attending 

 the American Revolution and by those which 

 relate to the War of 1812. With the exception 

 of the short contest of 1898 with Spain, which 

 contest had its origin in purely American con 

 ditions, the United States has been not only 

 at peace, but usually in the friendliest possible 

 relations with Germany, France, Russia, Italy, 

 and the other nations of continental Europe. 

 On the other hand, there have been many and 

 frequent occasions when public opinion, either 

 in Great Britain or in the United States, or in 

 both, has been deeply stirred by some difference 



