Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-30

famous saying: IF I were not an
American, / would want to be an
American But if he could not be
that, it is toward England he would
look, no doubt. In the meanwhile
the more one observes the private
and public relations, the more one is
convinced that the Americans don't
like the English. For all people es
tablished across the sea. the most Sc
we're surroundings where they live
are those of the English. For them,
the United States, incumbered with
immigrants everywhere, is an upstart
country, where they can't abstain
from joshing. They josh (blaguenO
the American accent, American
STYLES. American ideas and repeat
them fuently, more than do other for
eigners, slow to become acclimated to
the territory of the Union"
* X x
Turning to other foreign nations, M.
Tardieu finds:
"As to the Germans. the disposition
of the United States IS curious for a
F'renchman to observe. AT the founda-
ton. they have historic respect for
England, but present respect for Ger
many" 0906) americans don't like
the Germans, but they esteem them.
They esteem them for their force, to
which victory is cOnsecrated.
This Winter, at a university affair, a
German professor explained to MS
American auditors that, with the
United States ignorant of it, Provi-
dence had given favor to German les
sons. In coming out from there, an
American said to me:
THAT fell4kw truly thinks us more
SfIpi6 than we are
= At the same time, amongst
the naturalized, one finds sometimes
Teutonic arrogance foolishly persist
ing Il am a German-American.' says
one with pride of the representatives
Of Germany. Now the Americans be-
lieve that once one enters the Union,
one cannot invoke his past nationality
as a title of honor"
X X
Summing it all up, M. Tardieu said
| in 19O6-so it is trte for him to repeat
it to Mr.. Merle Thorpe in 1927-(and
then repudiate iD:
american patriotism is lively and
! proud and self.centered. The Ameri-
cans, wherever they are, work for
themselves. The cult of their country
is, with them, too absorbing for them
to borrow international infatuations
or diplomatic sentimentalities. They
are convinced of their superiority.
They do not serve others; they serve
themselves. Europe, in whose life
they are more and more involved, APP
pears to them checkerboard, where
| it is useful to make a move of certain
pieces. But, just the same, in the in
terventions on a ground which is not
theirs, they do not lose sight of their
own particular end
SO it will be noted that M. Tardieu's
ebullition to Mr.. Merle Thorpe about
how unlovely are the Americans land
which he repudiates as he advises
France to repudiate everything Amer
lean, is of long standing. He was a
professor in Harvard, therefore he
knows America, without visiting Main
Street or the Black Hills. He does
not like us. His supporters do not
like us. Mr.. Thorpe prophesies that
his friend Tardieu will be President of
France some day. He won't vote for
any frog" who does not love us, and
who wants to beat us out of the
Mellon-Berenger settlement for those
leftover supplies, sold at 20 cents on
the dollar, after we won that mans
war. and after we donated billions of
our dollars-every cent we had ad-
vanced on Frances II. o. u" during
the war.
During the Revolution, France was
our ally, and advanced to us, in four
loans. total Of 35,000,000 livres, and
contrary to the ethics of M. Tardieu.
France charged us interest on all but
the third loan at per cent. The
third loan, 100000 livres came in
1882, when we are almost ruined, and
France RENTED that interest. All
those loans and interest were fully
paid in stock dixie bondS) in 1895,
bearing Az per cent interest, and
every bond was redeemed in gold
when due-amounting with the inter-
est to se,a52.5oo. ance was our
ally. ~
(Copyyight. 1927. By fsdi v. Collins,