It was first used by Thomas Jefferson in his first Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801, sixteen months after Washington was dead and buried.

No doubt the meaning could be deduced from what Washington said in more than one passage of his "Farewell." But to understand in 1914 what he said or implied in 1796, we must be historical.

In 1796 the country was torn by conflicting parties for and against strong friendship, if not an actual alliance, between the United States on one side and Great Britain or France on the other.

Any foreign alliance that could be made in 1914, however, could not have been, for the same reason, with either Great Britain or France.

The aim proposed by its advocates was to curb and destroy the German domination of the world.