Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next to his sense of duty-which is deep, and has kept him sitting hour upon hour in the Senate, through endless speeches and formalities-is Mr. Wallace's passion for the Good Neighbor Policy...
Opposite the Earl was a gentleman who had been his Kenya neighbor since the early '20s. This was spruce, mustachioed Major Sir Henry John Delves ("Sir Jock") Broughton, 57. An old Etonian, he had inherited his ancestral Doddington Park in Cheshire, and a half-million pounds, from a recluse relative. An ardent racing fan, he had served through World War I in the Irish Guards, where he was known as the best card player in the officers' mess. Early in 1940, after 26 years of marriage, Sir Jock had been divorced by Lady Broughton, an avid sportswoman...
...lobby for withdrawal of the Marines. He got nowhere and drifted back to Haiti. By 1930 he had convinced a majority of the people that he could get rid of the Marines, and so they elected him President. Three years later Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated his Good Neighbor Policy: the next year Stenio Vincent went to see him and President Roosevelt withdrew the Marines. In his campaign Stenio Vincent had also plumped for a single five-year Presidential term, but when 1935 rolled around he changed his mind, ordered a plebiscite and was voted another five years in office. These five...
...criticism often voiced against the Good Neighbor Policy of President Roosevelt and the U. S. State Department is that their good neighborliness encourages Latin American caudillos to perpetuate themselves in office. The State Department's answer: U. S. policy is neither to encourage nor discourage any political factions in other countries, but to let those countries work out their own problems without interference. U. S. abandonment of interventionism has coincided with an epidemic of continuismo throughout Central America. Reading from north to south...
Proof of the shortage of vessels was everywhere last week. On the docks at Buenos Aires was piled three times as much goods for shipments to the U. S. as there was cargo space available. The whole "Good Neighbor" program in Latin America was endangered by lack of ships to carry on the trade which the U. S. has subsidized through its Export-Import...