"We must face the fact, regardless of how disagreeable it is, that before we can take effective action in a European war, the German armies may have brought all Europe under their control In that case, Europe Will be dominated by the strongest military nation the world has ever known, and this nation will be controlling a population far larger than our own,"
The United States, he added, stands today "where the road divides at the. sign-post between war and peace".
"Now that we have become one of the world's greatest nations," he asked, "shall we throw away the independent American destiny which our forefathers gave their lives for to win? Shall we submerge our future in the endless wars of the old world or shall we build our own defences and leave European wars to European countries?"—Havas.
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