WHY NOT A COOLIDGE DOCTRINE ?
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The proposed formula for a " Coolidge Doctrine " must have amused some students of international politics : Wherever there is a breaker of the Peace . . . America sees an enemy of mankind. Wherever she recognizes a follower of Peace . . . she recognizes a friend and fellow-worker.
But the American nation is not a benevolent old gentleman with his overcoat pockets stuffed full of pacifist tracts. America is young, intolerant, ambitious and aggressive. America will as likely as not prove to be one of the first great breakers of the Peace, breaking it, however, with a great sense of national righteousness. America is not devoted to mankind as a whole, but to the greatly superior part of it— the American part. America despises the " Dago Nations '! and loathes the Yellow. Is not this so ?—I am, Sir, &c., STEPHEN GRAHAM.
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