Like every artist the President found it necessary to exaxyerate his Hight and. shade and contrast _an idealized. Western world with strife-ridden Europe and Asia. The con-lusian of the Chaco peace and the momentary stability of the Latin American republics enabled him to say "Among the nations of the Great Western Hemisphere the policy of the good. neighbour" has happily pre-valled....'Fhere is neither war nor rumour of war nor desire for wat. The inhabitants of this vast area, 20,000,000 strong, spreading more than 6,000 miles from the Arctic to the Antarctic, believe in and propose to follow, the policy of the good neighbour, They wish with all their hearts that the rest of the world might do likewise; the rest of the world, ah there's the rub:
Tu those countries whose seonra pleat misfortune it was to pelons to Another hemisphere "a point has been reached "where the people of the Amerioss must take eoxnizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends towards aggression, of _increasin: armaments, of shortening, tempers—a situation which has mit many of the elements that lead to the tragedy general war,"
"Nations seeking expansion, seeking. rectification of injustices springing from former wars, or seeking outlets for trade, for population or even for their own peaceful contributions to the progress of civilization fall to) demonstrate that patience necessary to obtain reasonable and legitimate: objectives by peaceful negotiation or cly an appeal to the finer instincts of world justice," the President suid, "They have, therefore, impatient reverted {0 the old bellct in the ay?
the sword or to the fantastic cone option that they and they alone ate Shosem to full mission, god thet at {he otters among the billion and halt of human beings must and shall Team from and' be subject to them "To. aopt the Tanguage of the praitie"inem's Nghtin' words" ami
ely, no doubt, because the Propessis the President fi abe fo we them for neutrality Sunt submited to\ Cone {ress showed so evident @ desir that 'America should shut herself Up. {te tower' as.00n as the. shooting began Tt would not however, tower of hence.
"The President In his speech male tained thst "a0 a consistent. part clear policy, the United States toward Wars, not of Immediate concern to the Americas—"irst we decline to encourage the prosecution of wae ty Permitting belligerents "to obtain Soma, ammunition or mplemonts' of war from the United States," Second Wwe. sock {0 dlacournye the. use ty Bohtigerent nations of any" and ait American products "caleiatet felitate the prosestion of -war in Auantties aver and above our nor'nd} Sxports to them In" time of peace Until the. Presidents spcch and to presentation ofthe new neutrality Proposals, however the, Ameria Polley had "been neither consistent for clea, There was in fact" dstnct, Confit between advisers fromthe State Department who" wished certain amount. of feaibilty. to. preserved so that it would be pos-to distinguish between aggressor dnd victim and those who mataained thatihe United States must avoid al tut of every struggle. "They refused to consider. that there re such of every
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