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BRITISH AND AMERICAN NAVAL FOWER OXCK MORE COMBINED "With the British power and navy combined with our own, we have nothing to fear Irom the rest ot 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. .1 hose words, expressing a widely-held view of Ang-lo-American relations, might have been written last week. Actually they were set down in the autumn of 1823 by .lames Madison. As President, he had led the young nation igainst 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 ami 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, lo Britain, with Washington's tacit consent, fell the task of guarding the | Atlantic."—New York Times.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 234, 6 November 1940, Page 2
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170History repeated Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 234, 6 November 1940, Page 2
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