Excerpt from Cross Currents in Europe to-Day

The study of European affairs is no academic exercise for Americans; it runs to the roots of our national destiny. Our fate is not fashioned by domestic policies alone. Indeed, no wise domestic policies can be framed without reference to the course of world events. There has been no general war in Europe for more than two hundred years in which America has not taken part. As English colonies we participated in the War of the Spanish Succession at the opening of the eighteenth century; as an independent nation we shared in the responsibilities of the World War at the beginning of the twentieth century. Every concept of civic duty in war and peace, every dream of national grandeur has rested and must rest at bottom upon some foundation of international policy.

True as this was in 1914, it is still more true today.

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