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World Warned That US Could Be Pushed Towards Isolation Foreign Affairs News Keywords: MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, DAVOS, Source: London Daily Telegraph Published: January 31, 2000 Author: Christopher Lockwood in Davos Posted on 01/31/2000 06:29:13 PST by Stand Watch Listen Madeleine Albright, the US Secretary of State, yesterday hit back at America's critics, warning them that they risked driving her country towards the policies of isolation that led to the Second World War. A refugee from Hitler, the Czech-born Mrs Albright was speaking at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, an event which has drawn 30 presidents and prime ministers, along with more than 100 ministers and close to 2,0 00 businessmen to the Swiss resort town of Davos. Mrs Albright was questioned about a perceived growth in resentment over the past two years - not just in the Islamic world, but in Russia, China and Europe - at America's overwhelming preponderance in the military, econom ic and technological spheres. The French Foreign Minister, Hubert Vedrine, has taken to calling America "the Hyperpower" in recognition of this. "It's very strange," Mrs Albright said. "The US did not ask to be the only super-power. But when we were n ot on the international stage, in the 20s and 30s, our absence was a huge vacuum that led to great horrors." But, she gave warning, America "is at a very delicate period. A lot of Americans would rather pack up and go home". Anti-Americanism has been one of the most noticeable features of this year's Davos meeting, and the Ameri can magazine Newsweek titled this week's cover story "Honk if You Hate America". The sentiment was most obviously on display on Saturday, when a group of several hundred protesters tried to storm the conference centre, only to be held back by police, reinforced by the Swiss army. Though they claimed t o be demonstrating against globalisation, it was clear that America was their main target, as the globaliser-in-chief among nations. When their march on the centre was foiled, they resorted to attacking the local McDonald's. McDonald's made the ideal target, representing as it does both a symbol of America and a symbol of the process of globalisation. The demonstrators also attacked European cars, however, as well as injuring a Swiss policeman. It has probably not helped that America has chosen this year, the thirtieth Davos conference, to turn out in vast numbers, wit h something like 1,000 leading American businessmen, most of them corporation presidents, in attendance. The computer giants, men like Bill Gates and Michael Dell, have been here parading their successes, and what used to be a summit devoted to serious discussion of geo-political and geo-economic issues has been devoted to v ariations on the theme of How to Make Money on the Net. The presence of Bill Clinton has only added to the impression of American triumphalism. 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