OPEN DECLARATION.
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
MR LA GUARDIA’S PLEA
NEW YORK, Feb. 19. Addressing the American Legion at kittle Rock (Arkansas), the Mayor of New York (Mr F. H. La Guardia) advocated selling Britain and France all the ’planes they needed and giving chem discount.
‘‘Let us make it clear that we mean hands off the Western Hemisphere by an open declaration of our policy that we will pick our own enemies*” Mr La Guardia declared. “The only way to escape international complications is to get off this earth. The United States was more detached from the European situation 20 years ago than it is to-day.” Mr La Guardia also advocated selling surplus American commodities to countries “who are our trusted friends at a price they can afford to pay.' He thought this would swing the balance of trade away from the dictator nations.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 21 February 1939, Page 9
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