200 Rooms and Suites all with private Bath and Shower American and European Plan Some of the staunchest upholders of absolute American impartiality in the present war have urged that the United States should seize the opportunity provided by France and England having their hands full inthe struggle against Nazi world domination, to take. over the possessions of those countries in the western hemisphere, Sometimes 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.
It might be noted in passing that such a policy is directly contrary to the stated principles of conduct laid. down. by the United States op 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, too, been warned that the use of armed force in the weston hemisphere to settle such matters as property confication or debt repudiation would not be tolerated by the United States.
One of the outstanding advocates of this idea is Col. Lindbergh. In a radio speech on neutrality, partly inspired by Mr. William Castle, Under Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration, the famous flier not only advocated seizure of the British and French West Indies "to compensate for their debt," but even denied Canada the right to follow an independent foreign policy of its own. Have Canadians "the right to draw this hemisphere into a European war simply because they prefer the crown of England to American independence asked Lindbergh—presumably meaning by American independence "dependence on America." This curious philosophy was summed up in a phrase reminiscent of German demands for "living room." He declared, "This western hemisphere is our domain."
This desire to profit by the occupation of the allies with their life and death struggle 3,000 miles away to gather up a few unconsidered trifles near the United States' coast
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