I have a club book on my table wherein the members are classified as British, Colonial, American, and Foreign--quite unconsciously.

But they do think of our Government as foreign, and as a frontier sort of thing without good manners or good faith.

This distinction presents the big task of implanting here a real respect for our Government.

People often think to compliment the American Ambassador by assuming that he is better than his Government and must at times be ashamed of it.

Of course the Government never does this--never--but persons in unofficial life; and I have sometimes hit some hard blows under this condescending provocation.