TOPICS OF THE DAY
History Repeated “ ‘ With the British power and navy combined with our own, we have nothing to fear from the rest of the world; and in the great struggle of the epoch between liberty and despotism, we owe it to ourselves to sustain the former, in this hemisphere at least.’ Those words, expressing a widely-held view of Anglo-American relations, might have been written last week. Actually they were set down in the autumn of 1823 by James Madison. As President, he had led the young nation against Britain in the War of 1812. Post-war conditions had persuaded him. as they had many other Americans, that only co-operation between the United States and Britain could prevent the expansion of Europe’s continental monarchies, reactionary and grasping, in the New World. To the United States, under the Monroe Doctrine, fell the role of protecting the Western Hemisphere from foreign invasion. To Britain, with Washington’s tacit consent, lell the task of guarding the Atlantic.”—New York Times.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21245, 16 October 1940, Page 6
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