These extremely downright opinions of the President startled even some of those who privately endorse ed them. They felt that he should perhaps have drawn a distinction between the aggressive and the peaceful dictatorships, and made the criterian not internal forms of government but external actions. Though in the ultimate future the statement that peace would only be safe if democracy was everywhere established was in line with traditional American political faith, yet for the immediate future they felt that a policy of recognizing gradations of evil in the dictator forms of government was desirable. Very few Latin American states for example every test of democratic government, while Western Hemisphere there were dictatorships such as that of Kemal Ataturk which threatened _nebody.
The dictator nations naturally were hostile to the President's thesis, while some democratic nations were disappointed. They felt that the logical conclusion from the thesis that democracies alone safeguarded peace was that there should be cooperation among the democracies and the President had not mentioned it When the ery for "ce-operation" is heard from abroad American officials are apt to ask a little wearily why some nations are so persistent in chasing the form even at the risk of loosing the substance stop. In-
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