Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Courses in Mexico Unwarranted...
...Wilson has maintained toward Mexico, Mr. Paine says, "a policy of allowing the Mexicans to rid themselves of a government which, in conjunction with unscrupulous foreign capitalists, has exploited and robbed Mexico." The gentle and humanitarian policy of "allowing" the Mexicans to "rid themselves" of oppression, etc., has seemed rather more like a policy of unwarrantable and secretly conducted interference, to the end of destroying the only hope of stable government that Mexico possessed, of plunging her into the years of anarchy that followed and enraging her against us. "To have intervened would have meant the armed occupation of Mexico...
...subject for debate is as follows: "Resolved. That the United States Should Establish a Temporary Protectorate in Mexico Until Order and Stable Government is a Possibility." Five-minute speeches are to be prepared...
...European war, have been gradually working themselves up into a "heroic mood," and who seem to feel that at a time when most of the world is at war, it is somehow unmanly for us not to be doing some fighting. They feel that our differences with Mexico ought to be made an affair of honor. President Wilson's view seems to be that it would be dishonorable and cowardly to make war upon a weak nation, distracted by civil wars. Remembering that this Republic is dedicated to certain great principles, he apparently feels that we ought...
...approve his announcement that there must be no interference with Mexico...