SCATHING ATTACK
ON U.S. POLICY. I United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. A scathing attack on the United States Imperialistic Policy was made by Benjamin C Marsh, managing director of Farmers’ National Council in the United States, at a conference on Imperialism, at Caxton Hill. He said the Monroe Doctrine was not conceived in altruistic sympathy with South American peoples, but with the object of rescuing them for exploitation by the land of the free. The United States had embarked on a definite policy of a world financial and economical domination while most of the rest of the.world was fighting, lor world trade and commercial supremacy. In the years 1914 to 1918 the ruling classes, whose capital was Wall Street and not Washington, were cold-bloodedly figuring out on which horse to put their money. Unlike Lord Reaeonsfield’s opinion expressed after the Crimean War, “we did pick the right horse iis a sure winner, and then continued to ride both winners ami losers,”
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1929, Page 5
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170SCATHING ATTACK Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1929, Page 5
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