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Show The "Pacific Onslaught" of the United States on Latin America By MANUEL UGARTE, in "Destiny of a Continent." One of the great wonders of this century is the flexibility of United States imperialism and the multiple phases it has developed in response to local conditions. The world has never seen such a "pacific onslaught," such a wonderfully planned advance as that of the United States on Latin America. Rome applied a uniform standard of conquest. Spain persisted in vanity and glamour. Even today, France and England strive to dominate, domi-nate, not to assimilate. The United States alone has created a new system in complete accord with the trend of the times, discarding all practices or scruples. Other nations have occasionally obeyed public opinion. United States imperialism has always been able to control its impulses and its repugnances. Sometimes by strength, others by persuasion, disinterested here, inflexible there, the game has followed such a vast plan, the vision is so broad, being developed without fears, without sensibilities, without respite, re-spite, in such a synchronized movement, that we must frankly confess American imperialism is the most perfect instrument of domination the world has ever known. |