Contributors

42 THE CANADIAN I-IISTORICAL REVIEW government by whichpossessions beyond the seacouldbe safely• ruled. Finally, Mr. Ellis]inked theacquisition withother momentous events in the Pacific and the Far East in this conclusion: The Annexation o[ Hawaii,the Americanization o[ the Philippines and the partitioning of Chinafurnish the material for a tremendous dramawhichthe Pac',dl, cOce,,an will witness inthe near future. We may not be .able ,to foresee how the actionwillbeshaped, bu,t tha,t theEnglish-speaking worldwillplayavery largepart in it is certainaboveanything else.The effectuponCanadaand especially British Columbia willbeverygreat. 64 Although not clearlyrecognized at thetime,andcertainly notby Canada, theannexation ofHawaiiwithoutasingle protest fromGreat Britain-despite considerable "twisting of the lion'stail"-illustrated England's growin identityof interest with the UnitedStates and g served asthefirstsymbol oftheAnglo-American rapprochement which wasto become a significant factorin international relations in the twentieth century? 64"The ,.,Annexation ofHawaii," Va,,ily Colonist, Jul• 12, 1898., aSFor'the enormous concession to and the heavyprice' paid for thisAngloAmericanfriendship by Canadaas well as by Great Britain,seeD. G. Creighton, Dominion o• the North-A Historyo• Canada(Boston, 1944), 404-6. Contributors JAcQtr•s Mo•T, S. J., is preparing a P•i.D. thesis for the Department of History, University of Toronto, onthe"Attitude oftheFrenchCanadians to the BritishConnection,1839-52." D•. M•.•z•.TAT•is Professor of History,HowardUniversity, Washington, D.C. ...