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 |