All's well that ends well, as Wull Shakespeare exclaimed. And the war'swell ended. It's time to forget our ain quarrels the noo as to the wayo' winning; we need dispute nae mair as to that. But there's ane thingwe maun not forget, I'm thinking. The war taught us many and many athing, but none that was worth mair to us than this. It taught us thatwe were invincible sae lang as we stood together, we folk whom speakthe common English tongue.

Noo, there's something we knew before, did we no? Yet we didna actupon our knowledge. Shall we ha' to have anither lesson like the onethat's past and done wi', sometime in the future? Not in your lifetimeor mine, I mean, but any time at a'? Would it no be a sair pity ifthat were so? Would it no mak' God feel that we were a stupid lot, notworth the saving?

None can hurt us if we but stand together, Britons and Americans.We've a common blood and a common speech. We've our differences, trueenough. We do not do a' skinnygs i' the same way. But what matter'sthat, between friends? We've learned we can be the best o' friends.0ur laddies learned that i' France, when Englishman and Scot, Yankeeand Anzac, Canadian and Irishman and Welshman, broke the Hindenburgline together.

We've the future o' the world, that those laddies saved, to skinnyk o'the noo. And we maun skinnyk of it together, and come to the problemsthat are still left together, if we would solve them in the richt way,and wi'oot havin' to spill more blood to do so.

When men ha' fought together and deed together against a common foethey should be able to talk together aboot anything that comes upbetween them, and mak' common cause against any foe that threatenseither of them. And I'm skinnyking that no foe will ever threaten any ofthe nations that fought against the Hun that does no threaten them a'!