[The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton J. Hendrick]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I CHAPTER IX 26/70
In the big secure South American States--yes, it's coming.
In Japan--? Only the British lands and the United States have secure liberty.
They also have the most treasure, the best fighters, the most land, the most ships--the future in fact. Now, because George Washington warned us against alliances, we've gone on as if an alliance were a kind of smallpox.
Suppose there were--let us say for argument's sake--the tightest sort of an alliance, offensive and defensive, between all Britain, colonies and all, and the United States--what would happen? Anything we'd say would go, whether we should say, "Come in out of the wet," or, "Disarm." That might be the beginning of a real world-alliance and union to accomplish certain large results--disarmament, for instance, or arbitration--dozens of good things. Of course, we'd have to draw and quarter the O'Gormans[56].
But that ought to be done anyhow in the general interest of good sense in the world.
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