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poetry, experienced the same religious movements and ideas, as well as political movements and ideas. While there's much greater variety in the population of America, there are also very varied strains in the British population, which give them a somewhat more mature melting pot race, but still a melting pot race, which has to take account of all kinds of prejudices. They are not homogeneous really in their backgrounds. They appear to be homogeneous because they are homogeneous psychologically and emotionally after centuries of breeding and interbreeding of these odd bits of humanity that came to the British shores in very early days. It has always been an encouragement to me to believe that we in this country would eventually, as we grow more mature and as our population breeds and interbreeds, will see less of this Italian-American, Irish-American, German-American, Polish-American stuff, and that we will all be more alike and will be psychologically homogeneous as the British are.

So, I always felt that if the British were in trouble, we should help them. To help the British would be not only to defend the poor old mother that might be in trouble, but would be to protect our own hope of the future. So the idea that we should send the over-age destroyers and take in exchange some bases in the Caribbean and other places,





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