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ARCHIVES "NATIONAL AND
- 2 -
: . SERVICE" RECORDS
letter to President Monroe, urging the adoption of what we now know as
the Monroe Doctrine, he wrote:
"Nor is the occasion to be slighted which this proposition
offers of declaring our protest against the atrocious violations of the
rights of nations by the interference of any one in the internal affairs
of another.'
We,
like Jefferson, have witnessed atrocious violations,
of nations,
We, too, have regarded them as occasions not to be slighted.
We, too, have declared our protest
We must implement do
declare that protest) with aid, those instanned peoples whose
reflective
freedoms are endangered by foreign pressures.
perely
We must take a positive stand. It is no longer enough to say
We must
ss
"ww don't want war."
It
is
act. in time - ahead of time -
to stamp out the smouldering beginnings of any conflict that may threaten
to spread over the world.
We know how the fire starts. We have seen it before tomas
aggression by the strong against the weak, openly by the use of armed
and
forces and secretly by infiltration. We know how the fire spreads. And
we know how it ends.
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