TAILIEUCHUNG - An Essay On The American Contribution And The Democratic Idea By Sir Winston S Churchill

An intention, by the way, diametrically different from that of Germany. In regard to our protectorate in the island of San Domingo, our “semi-protectorate” in Nicaragua, the same argument of intention may fairly be urged. Germany, who desired them, would have exploited them. To a certain extent, no doubt, as a result of the momentum of commercial imperialism, we are still exploiting them. | An Essay on the American Contribution and the Democratic Idea Winston Churchill DODO I WI PRESS An Essay on the American Contribution and the Democratic Idea AN ESSAY ON THE AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION AND THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA Failure to recognize that the American is at heart an idealist is to lack understanding of our national character. Two of our greatest interpreters proclaimed it Emerson and William James. In a recent address at the Paris Sorbonne on American Idealism M. Firmin Roz observed that a people is rarely justly estimated by its contemporaries. The French he says have been celebrated chiefly for the skill of their chefs and their vaudeville actors while in the disturbed speculum mundi Americans have appeared as a collection of money grabbers whose philosophy is the dollar. It remained for the war to reveal the true nature of both peoples. The American colonists M. Roz continues unlike other colonists were animated not by material motives but by the desire to safeguard and realize an ideal our inherent characteristic today is a belief in the virtue and power of ideas of a national indeed of a universal mission. In the Eighteenth Century we proposed a Philosophy and adopted a Constitution far in advance of the political practice of the day and set up a government of which Europe predicted the early downfall. Nevertheless thanks partly to good fortune and to the farseeing wisdom of our early statesmen who perceived that the success of our experiment depended upon the maintenance of an isolation from European affairs we established democracy as a practical form of government. We have not always lived up to our beliefs in ideas. In our dealings with other nations we yielded often to imperialistic ambitions and thus to a certain extent justified the cynicism of Europe. We took what we wanted and more. From Spain we seized western Florida the annexation of Texas and the subsequent war with Mexico are acts upon which we cannot look back with unmixed democratic .

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