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Show The United States has not the slightest wish to establish a univcisal protectorate over other American States, or to become lcsponslulc for their misdeeds. If one of them becomes be-comes Involved In an ordinary quarrel with a European power, such quarrel must be settled between them by any one of the usual methods. Hut no European State is to be allowed to aggrandize Itself on American soil at the expense of any American State. Furthermore no tiansfer of an American Ameri-can colony from one European state to another is to be permitted, If, In the Judgment of the United States, such transfer would be hostile to Its own interests. Roosevelt. |