A Straight Deal; Or, The Ancient Grudge

The author surveys American antipathy toward Britain, tracing its roots to long-ago conflicts and everyday prejudices, and argues that persistent historical grudges and commercial complaints weaken allied cooperation against a resurgent German threat. Through a series of essays prompted by wartime controversies and public letters, he critiques propagandistic rhetoric, anonymous vitriol, and selective memory, urges common sense over inherited resentments, acknowledges domestic faults without equating them to strategic dangers, and contends that pragmatic friendship and unity are preferable to repeating old hatreds that can be exploited by hostile powers.