THE AMERICAN IDEA
."If we understood a little better the vast import of the problems and perplexities with which Americans are now faced, we should be both more sympathetic and more interested," 4 writes the Hon. Harold Nicolson in the Spectator. "We do not always remember that the fathers and mothers of most Americans left Europe because they did not like it, and that there remain hereditary memories and associations which tug their nerves apart. We do not always remember that although in this war their ideals are identical with ours, yet 'The American Idea' is ah even more abstract conception, that it is ' a shining thing in . the mind.' Immense and frail, this idea dominates their consciousness and they fear that if again they become entangled in the complexities of Europe the rainbow may fade."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24783, 6 December 1941, Page 11
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