The Attitude of the United States Toward Europe

sistently told their Allies that they wanted nothing, no new territories, no concessions, but were present as the champions of the various peoples of the world, and not of the vested or commercial interests of any country. One of the causes of this great war that we have just gone through, is that Germany and Great Britain were competing for the commerce of the world and they found it necessary to exploit peoples in order to secure advantages. We are ready, if I understand the American people correctly, to enter into a free competition, asking no favors and no odds, depending upon the treatment that we give to our customers for the trade that we can secure

Political science · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics