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which is a combination of graft, bribery, and of great wealth and
great poverty. Their inefficiency in war is due primarily to this
disease. We suffer from the same cancerous disease gnawing at
our vitals, and we will suffer the same fate if we do not eradicate
the germs of it.
It is at least a possibility that Brazil will welcome Hitler.
In that case, what will become of the steel plant we propose,
according to press reports, to build in that country (Ostensibly,
of course, as a defensive measure.) There is now pending
in Congress a bill with administration support, to enlarge the
powers of the R. F. C. in order to enable it to furnish the required
capital. There appears to be no constitutional limitation
whatever upon the activities of this vicious administration of
our government and of this vicious corporation.
It is at least debatable whether we are justified in going to
war to enforce the Monroe Doctrine, and particularly to protect
a state that does not ask or want our protection. If it is
our fixed policy to enforce this doctrine then we should ourselves
respect it.
The Monroe Doctrine demands America for Americans.—
but concedes Europe for Europeans, and Asia for Asiatics. That
is the present position of Japan and Germany and Italy. Japan
proposes to enforce it in Asia; Hitler and Mussolini in Europe.
However much we may wish to preserve the status quo in the
East Indies and the British Empire, it is none of our affair, and
there is nothing we can do about it except to go to war and probably
destroy ourselves.
The people of these countries can solve their own problems
in their own way, as they have heretofore done,—without our
help. Our position should continue to be—as it has always been
into maintain friendly relations with whatever governments
they establish.
It must be conceded that both Hitler and Mussolini have
ample provocation for war. The President has called them
names and made faces at them. He said of Mussolini that he
was an assassin who "stabbed his neighbor in the back,"—but
if he had declared himself on the side of the Allies he would
have had the benedictions of the President. It is not incumbent
on them to declare war on us, for we first begun war on them
by pledging our unlimited support to the Allies. Mr. Roosevelt
declared an economic war on Germany more than a year ago