A 1920s View of America...

George Jean Nathan (1882 – 1958) and H.L. Mencken (1880 – 1956) surmised that as the Europeans bury their many dead among the damp, depressing ruins of World War One, America is neither admired or liked very much: “the English owe us money”, “the Germans smart under their defeat”, “the French lament that they are no longer able to rob and debauch our infantry”.

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