theme—that Britain, suffering from a slow rate of growth, exhausted finances, and “faults in her economic structure,” was simply too weak to tether itself to a United States that seemed to “live in a vast and unceasing crescendo.” The United States, with all its strength and dynamism, could “suffer industrial and financial tempests in the years to come, and they will scarcely matter to her; but England if she shares them, may almost drown.”
