and said that I felt, as he did, that the way to avoid
difficulties was to discuss them frankly before action
and that I welcomed therefore what he had just said.
 
 I continued on the matter of general relationships 
by saying that I had been much struck by noticing that
it was much harder for the American people to be indifferent 
to what took place within Germany than it
was even for the citizen of France or England, nations 
which had borne the brunt of the War.  I felt that this 
arose from that Freudian complex by which deep affection
which is shattered turns inevitably to hatred and not 
to indifference.  Americans of ny age and generation
has been accustomed to see tha best intellectuals in
our country go to Germany for education in medicine,
technical matters, arts, and so on; that thousands of 
houses, among them mine, had had German girls as
governesses for the children, that ten thousands of 
families had German relatives.  Thus the bonds between 
the two lands went so deep that we could not regard
what happened in Germany with indifference.  I said,
if Dr. Goebbels wished to prove these relationships to
his own satisfaction, he had only to summon a dozen
of his collaborators and ask them each of the relationship 
they had with America.  He was almost certain to 
find in every case that each of them had a cousin, a
brother, an uncle, or some branch of his family 
established in our country in the past 100 years.
The War had largely shattered this feeling of 
close contact and affection for Germany.  In the