By Some of the staunchest upholders solute American impartiality in the pre-Fent war have urged that the United States should seize the opportunity provided by rance and England having their hands full in the struggle against Nazi world domina~ tion, to take over the possessions of those countries in the western hemisphere, Some= limes an effort is made to defend such a point of view by saying that the territorial possessions of those powers would compensate the United States for the non-payment of war-debts but frequently even this hollow excuse is omitted and the annexation of foreign territory is urged on no higher grounds than expediency and self-interest.
IL might be noted in. passing that such a policy is directly contrary to the stated principles of conduct aid down by the United States on frequent occasions. Armed intervention for the collection of debts has been practised in times past at the expense of Latin American countries, but this particular form of "dollar diplomacy" has been roundly condemned for many years and foreign nations have, teo, been warned that the use of armed force in the weston hemisphere to settle such matters as property con-Miseation or debt repudiation would not be (derated by the United States.
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