![]() This ancient political principle, so well understood in diplomatic circles, applied nearly as well to the original thirteen American colonies as to the countries of Europe. “Politics,” runs an old saying, “stops at the water’s edge." ![]() The presence of the enemy allays the most virulent of quarrels, temporarily at least. The imperative call to common defense, the habit of sharing common burdens, the fusing force of common service – these things, induced by the necessity of resisting outside interference, act as an amalgam drawing together all elements, except, perhaps, the most discordant. It is one of the well-known facts of history that a people loosely united by domestic ties of a political and economic nature, even a people torn by domestic strife, may be welded into a solid and compact body by an attack from a foreign power. ![]() Charles Beard, Mary Beard, 1921 CHAPTER IV THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLONIAL NATIONALISM ![]()
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