[A Straight Deal by Owen Wister]@TWC D-Link bookA Straight Deal CHAPTER XV: Rude Britannia, Crude Columbia 47/59
I hope and believe that, between them all, they cover the ground; that, taken together as I want you to take them after you have taken them singly, they make my several points clear.
As I see it, they reveal the chief whys and wherefores of friction between English and Americans.
It is also my hope that I have been equally disagreeable to everybody.
If I am to be banished from both countries, I shall try not to pass my exile in Switzerland, which is indeed a lovely place, but just now too full of celebrated Germans. Beyond my two early points, the right to privacy and the mother-tongue, what are the generalizations to be drawn from my data? I should like to dodge spelling them out, I should immensely prefer to leave it here. Some readers know it already, knew it before I began; while for others, what has been said will be enough.
These, if they have the will to friendship instead of the will to hate, will get rid of their anti-English complex, supposing that they had one, and understand better in future what has not been clear to them before.
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