Discourage histories for children (and for grown-ups too) which breed international dislike.

Such exist among us all.

There is a recent one, written in England, that needs some changes.
Should an Englishman say to me: "I have the will to friendship.

Is there any particular thing which I can do to help ?" I should answer him: "Just now, or in any days to come, should you be tempted to remind us that we did not protest against the martyrdom of Belgium, that we were a bit slow in coming into the war,--oh, don't utter that reproach! Go back to your own past; look, for instance, at your guarantee to Denmark, at Lord John Russell's words: 'Her Majesty could not see with indifference a military occupation of Holstein'-- and then see what England shirked; and read that scathing sentence spoken to her ambassador in Russia: 'Then we may dismiss any idea that England will fight on a point of honor.' We had made you no such guarantee.

We were three thousand miles away--how far was Denmark?
"And another thing.