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1936 › Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) › Policy toward Latin America and the Western Hemisphere
The Good Neighbor: no armed intervention, no territorial expansion, reduction of armaments
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Solution
Continue the non-intervention convention, the abandoned Platt Amendment and withdrawn marines; seek an inter-American peace machinery at Buenos Aires in December 1936.
Rationale
'We seek to dominate no other Nation. We ask no territorial expansion. We oppose imperialism.'
Position chain: Non-interference in other nations' affairs and cooperation with Western Hemisphere nations
Statements (2)
In pursuance of the good-neighbor policy, and because in my younger days I had learned many lessons in the hard school of experience, I stated that the United States was opposed definitely to armed intervention.
We seek to dominate no other Nation. We ask no territorial expansion. We oppose imperialism. We desire reduction in world armaments.
Follow-through
kept
The Buenos Aires conference (Dec. 1936) adopted a consultative peace machinery and a non-intervention protocol; no U.S. intervention followed the Mexican oil expropriation of 1938; the Lima and Panama declarations (1938-39) extended hemispheric consultation.
Mechanisms
| Date | Type | Name | Effect | Consistent? | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936-12-23 | treaty | Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires | Non-intervention protocol and consultation. | yes | Good Neighbor policy - Wikipedia |
Assessments
The policy held through the Mexican expropriation crisis.
Other positions on this issue
- Non-interference in other nations' affairs and cooperation with Western Hemisphere nations — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 directional_stance
- Withdraw the Marines from Nicaragua after the 1932 election and from Haiti under the Forbes Commission plan; 'no imperialistic ambitions' — Herbert Hoover, 1932 specific_pledge
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