Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese bid for 18,000 tons of scrap iron was rejected, a cargo of war materials ticketed for Tokyo frozen. A Government spokesman announced that Cardenas would declare unconstitutional a contract signed fortnight ago, granting Japan oil concessions in the State of Veracruz. This, said the Mexican Good Neighbor, was to "demonstrate Mexico's adherence to the hemisphere policy of solidarity." Few days later President General Cárdenas changed his mind...
Maritain solemnly declares: "A political ideal of brotherly love alone can direct the work of authentic social regeneration. . . . Martyrs to the love of neighbor may first be necessary...
...American people have subscribed to Pan-Americanism and hemisphere defense whole-heartedly. Roosevelt has been a great exponent of the Good Neighbor policy. But Americans have very little realization of what they are dealing with. Politicians and even newspaper men writing from South America refer to the common desire of all the American nations to preserve democracy in the western hemisphere. The truth is that democracy as we know it does not exist south of the Rio Grande. Latin-America is more akin to the "old world" than the United States both culturally and economically. We must face the fact...
...Japan's "dumping" ($3,533,000 last year) in the U. S., last week wondered about Japan's $658,000 market in the rest of this hemisphere, wondered if they might have to expand to supply it. Last week U. S. clothing manufacturers, fearful that the good-neighbor policy might divert rayon, woolen & cotton textiles to Latin America, began to clamor for speedier delivery from the overworked mills...
...addition they will support "the maintenance of a forward moving American democracy whose civil liberties and social gains must be extended as well as preserved in a program of national defense" and "the building up of hemispherical solidarity through a good neighbor policy of cooperation and assistance. In these beliefs the Marx-Stange faction concur...