Letters to the Editor | 27 May 2006

Europeans made the USA
From Ronald Fletcher
Sir: David Mayger (Letters, 20 May) seems to be unaware that the history of his country has been written many times, and that the salient fact to emerge is that the USA was largely the creation of Europeans, among whom the British were to the fore.
It is deeply regrettable that in the 20th century one European power was so determined to impose itself on the rest of the world that it waged two aggressive wars in which America was reluctantly obliged to participate; but the notion that America could stand aloof from ‘foreign entanglements’ was exploded, I should have thought, at Pearl Harbor. America actually acquired two enemies (three if one includes Italy) for the price of one, and was even attacked by German U-boats towards the end of the war.
I hope that Mr Mayger will not stick to his promise to stay on his side of the Atlantic.