The Mikado
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« on: March 22, 2023, 08:59:39 PM » |
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Let's say TR lived to 80 (Died in 1938).
I think he'd spend half his time ranting that cousin Franklin stopped the occupation of Haiti in 1934 and that his "Good Neighbor Policy" was wrongheadedly ending rightful American domination of the Western Hemisphere, and would be warning that if the US didn't put some stick about in Latin America to keep it onside, it'd end up in the camp of the Germans or the Japanese or the Russians instead.
"...And why doesn't Franklin do something about China! My friend Henry...that's Henry Luce, founder of Time Magazine...keeps showing me these photographs of Nanking...do you know what's happening there? We need to help Chiang against these Japanese devils or it'll be our Philippine Islands next, mark my words. Franklin is too comfortable talking things over with the Japanese. Mark my words, they're a menace and if we don't act now we'll have to act later at greater cost when a Nipponese battleship enters San Francisco Bay."
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