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of neighbors, and said that the United States was in
 
reality a completely secure continent and not a small
 
part of a continent beset with jealousies and hatreds
 
and rivalriss, such as was Italy. The King spoke of the
 
power of the United States to amalgamate the immigrants
 
that came to its shores and that, consequently, it had
 
never been and never would be the prey ofl the serious
 
problems resulting in Europe from the rivalties of
 
minorities under one jurisdiction. He said that the
 
national homogeneity of the Italian people was, however,
 
one blessing that Italy possessed, but that this was not
 
a blessing possessed by many of the smaller powers in
 
Europe .
 
     I remarked to the King that when I left Rome I had
 
been told that I would find great intransigence in London
 
and Paris and less intransigence in Berlin. I said, how-
 
ever, that I had not found intransigence in France or
 
England, but merely the determination, and a very cold
 
determination, to fight to the finish until and unless
 
those powers could obtain guarantees of security other
 
than those merely written on paper, so that they would 
 
not again be confronted by a situation similar to that 
 
which now existed. I said that in Berlin I had been very 
 
much impressed by the conviction expressed to me by every 
 
member of the Government that the immediate, as well as
 
the ultimate, objective of England and France was to
 
destroy the German Reich, and to destroy the German people.
 
I said that I was confident that that was not the case;
 
that what the Allies did demand was the positive and 
 
practical guarantee that they themselves were not to
 
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