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pounded by a third party, the German historian Otto Vossler, who thought that
the “American mission,” like the Statue of Liberty, was the gift of the French
Republic.^44
44 Die amerikanischen Revolutionsideale in ihrem Verhältnis zu den europäischen: Untersucht an
Thomas Jefferson (Berlin, 1929); and see my summary of this work in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd
ser., XII (1955), 462–71.