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Conscious of the dangers inherent in such an effort to seek economic well-being outside our borders Charles Austin Beard in The Open Door at Home (1934) attacked the open door policy. He advocated an entirely new, non-expansionist economic and political orientation in order to achieve two crucial objectives: (1) to provide a minimum standard of living for all Americans in a non-socialist but planned redistribution of wealth; and (2) to avoid the possibility of being drawn into foreign wars which did not directly threaten our survival. By renouncing Cordell Hull's trade-expansion policy, the United States...
WILLIAMS on several occasions acknowledged his respect for Beard, most explicitly in his Contours of American History (1961), where he wrote, "that the Pulitzer Prize Committee has yet to find either the intelligence or the courage to honor him even posthumously is one of the most illuminating aspects of our time...
Significantly, however, in his writings on foreign policy Beard was never credited with demolishing the open-door illusion. Williams does not mention him in the remarkable preface to The Roots of the Modern American Empire, which chronicles the growth of this fascinating theory of American imperialism. Extensive research shows that Williams had adopted the substance of Beard's anti-expansionist vision by 1950. Beard himself, it should be noted, explicitly recognized that agriculture, as much as industry, clamored for foreign markets as a means of avoiding depression. "Cold-war revisionism," then, turns out to be, at least in part...
...Both Beard and Williams rejected the label "isolationist." First of all. The Tragedy persuasively argued that in the so-called "isolationist" 1920's American interests and commitments were world-wide: by uniltateral action (such as the official Dawes and Young loans to the faltering German economy) we sought to buttress free trade throughout the world. Secondly, the kind of reorientation Beard and Williams advocated would not inherently isolate the United States from the world. With less proclivity to intervene in the interests of a world market system, we might feel more inclined to act vigorously out of unselfish interest...
...lives and men's souls." Disguised as a smooth-faced young compulsive or a solid English gentleman, he gained admission to private gambling clubs and forced men with his eyes to play millions of marks into his hands. Made up as Dr. Weltmann in long seraggly hair and beard, he conducted public demonstrations of hypnosis that almost succeeded in doing away with his arch-enemy, detective de Witt. Undisguised he discarded the women who loved him and abducted those who did not. At the end, in a house surrounded by cops with the Army arriving, he imagined he could outgun...