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Excerpt from The Department of State Bulletin, Vol. 20: Numbers 496-521; January 2-June 26, 1948
The free interchange of ideas and persons be tween nations has always been a cardinal Amer ican principle. In a real sense the cultural structure of the United States has been derived from an interplay of outside and native influences. Without outside contacts the United States could not have developed as it has, nor would its further development be enriched and diversified without a continuation of such contacts. The United States is not unique in its inherit ance of cultural influences from other countries of the world; all civilized nations owe a considerable debt to ideas and art forms borrowed from outside their borders and amalgamated with their own contributions to produce a new and richer product. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
