Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Children. Both sides were sure to appeal for U.S. intervention-the opposition to demand a fair shake, the Somozistas to get their victory certified. For about a year, ever since he got the word that the U.S. State Department favored democracy in the banana belt too, Dictator Somoza has...
Since it is now official doctrine that the liberal elements within both the Communists and the Kuomintang must stop the struggle between extremists of both parties, the rapid withdrawal of American troops servicing the Peiping Headquarters of the Marshall mission, is tantamount to announcing that further American intervention will merely...
Larreta. An interesting-and heartening-conflict of views on "sovereignty" v. "intervention" arose between Uruguay's Foreign Minister Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta and Sumner Welles, former U.S. Under Secretary of State. It was Larreta who urged that small nations, in the interests of a democratic Pan-American community, abandon their...
Welles refused to agree that "intervention" should be classified as a mere "fetish word." Referring to Larreta's attempt to force out Argentina's Peron by Pan-American action, Welles applauded the objective, but added:
"The nations of the Americas have . . . learned from the history of this Hemisphere that unless an insurmountable barrier is imposed to intervention by powerful states in the affairs of weaker states, the rights and liberties of independent and