DAVID G. HASKINS JR.

The enthusiasm for colonies is dead.

The criticisms ... were protests against acts of cruelty committed by some American soldiers.... The events which gave rise to these protests might naturally arouse the indignation of all true Americans, jealous of their country's good name; but they were merely side issues in the great struggle against imperialism. Indeed to an anti-imperialist, as such, they have no special importance, except as illustrations of the impossibility of carrying out the experiment of colonialism without working grievous wrong to the subjugated people, and to our American ideals.

The criticisms ... were protests against acts of cruelty committed by some American soldiers.... The events which gave rise to these protests might naturally arouse the indignation of all true Americans, jealous of their country's good name; but they were merely side issues in the great struggle against imperialism. Indeed to an anti-imperialist, as such, they have no special importance, except as illustrations of the impossibility of carrying out the experiment of colonialism without working grievous wrong to the subjugated people, and to our American ideals.

The enthusiasm for colonies is dead.