OH, SHOOT! 



plain, problems so elemental, that even a 

 thirty-two-caliber brain can grasp them. 



How can that country get back on her feet, 

 the way she is going? Whence is to come the 

 help she needs if she continues to antagonize 

 those willing to assist her? How can we prove 

 to her that we are not her enemies? How 

 long will a world clamorous for peace, hungry 

 for food, bankrupt of raw materials, permit 

 one of its richest sections to be trod under the 

 feet of rioters? 



Self-determination of peoples, racial in- 

 tegrity, experiments in the various forms and 

 theories of government all these we Yankees 

 are pledged to respect and it is our wish to 

 respect them. But nature demands an equi- 

 librium. Chaos cannot continue to exist 

 alongside of order. One part of the world 

 will not long consent to go hungry the while 

 another part fails to till its fields or refuses to 

 sell its crops. One of the first tasks ahead of 

 our statesmen, it seems to me, should be an 

 earnest, honest effort to aid Mexico to find 

 herself. If ever we can be brought to enunci- 

 ate and adhere to a definite foreign policy, I 

 believe we can make friends once more with 

 the Mexicans and renew the neighborly rela- 



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