"It is high time," the correspondent declares, "that America starts to realize that she is a daughter state of Europe and in both the moral and cultural fields has received considerable dowry from the Old World. The mission of the New World does not lie in adopting schoolmaster tactics towards the old and still less in exciting the countries which have populated her, against one another or through unrestrained defamation and stirring up enmities against the peoples.
"The United States may well be proud that they have enforced their Monroe Doctrine throughout. {he world and have gained universal recognition but this fact in itself should inspire certain American circles to a higher degree of tactfulness. It is certainly understandable that from the point of view of general interest the United States cannot remain indifferent to European developments but even to be able to judge these properly, demands a more detailed knowledge of facts and particularly more insight than America has shown for: European affairs since the end of the World War.
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