Article December 7, 1929 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from J. Ramsay MacDonald, Ripon, William F. Sunday, Paul Block

[Editorial in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts]

The new diplomacy is more than a phrase. It is a profound conception. It is the conception that international relations must rest on a sounder basis than balance of power or the equilibrium of military alliances. The time is come when balance of power must give way to balance of faith, and when alliances of force must yield to alliances of friendship.

Clearly, Ramsay MacDonald's visit to the United States has been a crowning triumph for the new diplomacy and a climactic proof that Anglo-American unity must be unity in the cause of peace and not in the cause of war. It is interesting to recall that such was the conception of Anglo-American accord to which Mary Baker Eddy gave expression in her poem, "The United States to Great Britain," which first appeared on Sunday, May 15, 1898, in the Boston Herald. Mrs. Eddy penned the following verses (Poem, pp. 10, 11):

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