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AMERICAN
FOREIGN POLICY
BY A DIPLOMATIST
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commerce and our coast line, our policies
in Latin America and our distant depend-
encies in the Pacific. The country has at
last realized the importance of a fleet as
an insurance against war. It has still to
be aroused to the necessity of an efficient
diplomacy as an adjunct to the navy, both
in the extension of our commerce and in-
fluence abroad and in the preservation of
peace while carrying out the national poli-
cies.
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CONTENTS
I. The Policy of Understandings . 1
CHAPTER I
acute analysis *
of the Farewell Address
that, correctly interpreted, it holds as true
to-day as when delivered. Washington
had founded on our then
his reasoning
feebleness as a nation and on our remote-
* Atlantic Monthly, May, 1898, pp. 578 el seq.
THE POLICY OF UNDERSTANDINGS 5
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means by which we could assure the safe-
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guarding of our pretensions and over-sea
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nature to diminish their risk and increase
their force, while protecting them from
danger behind. We have witnessed the
effects of such concerted action against
Japan, robbed at Port Arthur of the prize
of victory over China. We have seen it
cert of Europe. i
nations.
With the remaining continental powers,
apart from the extensive commercial rela-
RELATIONS WITH EUROPE 45
powers.
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and which would allow public opinion to be
held in restraint or prepared for any course
of action or event. An official whose sole
duty would be to inform the press of our
national necessities in questions of foreign
policy could, without in any way improp-
erly interfering with the independence of
its judgment, exert a healthy influence in
functions.
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