No longer ago than June 1, 1919, a Sam Johnson, who was discussing the Peace Treaty, said in my hearing, in London: "The Yankees shouldn't have been brought into any consultation.

They aided and abetted Germany." In Littell's Living Age of July 20, 1918, pages 151-160, you may read an interesting account of British writers on the United States.

The bygone ones were pretty preposterous.

They satirized the newness of a new country.

It was like visiting the Esquimaux and complaining that they grew no pineapples and wore skins.