... Well, what do you think of our country _now_? And what do you
think of the figure she is cutting before the eyes of the world? For
one, I am ashamed--(Extract from a long and heated letter from a
Voluntary Exile, Member of the American Colony, Paris.)
And so you are ashamed. I am trying to think out what it can have been
that has produced this large attitude of mind and this fine flow of
sarcasm. Apparently you are ashamed to look Europe in the face; ashamed
of the American name; temporarily ashamed of your nationality. By the
light of remarks made to me by an American here in Vienna, I judge that
you are ashamed because:
1. We are meddling where we have no business and no right; meddling with
the private family matters of a sister nation; intruding upon her sacred
right to do as she pleases with her own, unquestioned by anybody.