Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cordell Hull's anger cleared nothing up, said none of the things that needed urgently to be said. In dropping Sumner Welles he had dropped the chief architect of the U.S.'s Good Neighbor Policy in South America, an opponent of those who would do business with Fascists on the basis of expediency, a known and respected advocate of U.S. cooperation in international affairs. The U.S. still awaits a clarification of its foreign policy and the forced resignation of Sumner Welles made an already murky issue even more obscure. Until that issue is plain, angry Cordell Hull...
...concord among the nations of North America and the nations of South America . . . both military and economic. Its first and chief article must be that every nation from Tierra del Fuego to the northernmost reaches of Canada will stand as one ... against This is not a mere Good Neighbor Policy. It is a policy of American Solidarity against any non-American nation threatening the territorial integrity of any American nation, large or small...
...That might seem desirable, if we wanted to depart from democratic principles. . . . Mr. Bernal is not a Mexican according to our law. ... It would not take Mrs. Bernal long to become an American. . . . The Republic of Mexico is ... a friendly neighbor. . . . Because I feel that the [deed] restriction is contrary to public policy and . . . decidedly unconstitutional ... I will order judgment for defendants...
...province of chill, correct, intelligent Sumner Welles, whose ability is generally underestimated by the citizenry, who are either so awe struck or repelled by his attitude that they miss the man himself. Welles, product of Groton and Harvard, an ace career diplomat, is the author of the Good Neighbor Policy which Mr. Roosevelt adopted...
...Ambassador Sawada, domestic affairs, organization and selection of the foreign affairs personnel will be quickly decided upon." Burma's independence, Jap-style, was served up last week for good Japanese reasons: 1) propaganda to India (from Singapore, Indian Agitator Subhas Chandra Bose broadcast: "Now that India's neighbor Burma has achieved its freedom, nothing on earth can keep the Indians enslaved any longer"); 2) there is severe economic distress in Burma and the Japs would rather see public wrath directed at Ba Maw than at themselves; 3) the Japs expect an Allied offensive into Burma, think the political...