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The Good Neighbor Policy phrase was coined by President Herbert Hoover, not President Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover was on a goodwill trip to Latin America soon after his election in 1928 when he gave a speech in Honduras announcing, "We have a desire to maintain not only the cordial relations of governments with each other, but also the relations of good neighbors." | ||
| The intention of the new policy was to mend relations with Latin American countries after they criticized the Coolidge Administration during the Sixth Pan-American Conference in Havana in 1928 for armed interventions in Haiti and Nicaragua. U.S. relations with Latin America were at an all-time low. The result of the Good Neighbor policy greatly changed relations between the United States and the Latin American countries. The policy was not explicitly contrary to the Roosevelt Corollary which it effectively superseded, but its tone foreshadowed a more co-operative approach to the resolution of hemispheric problems. | |||
| In his first inaugural address on assuming the presidency (], ]), Roosevelt declared: | |||
| :In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor — the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others — the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors. | |||
| Later that year, military intervention in the Latin American countries was sworn off. The result of the Good Neighbor policy greatly changed relations between the United States and the Latin American countries. Movies by ] and ] were produced in order to help influence the policy with the American people. | |||
| The policy was not explicitly contrary to the ] which it effectively superseded, but its tone foreshadowed a more co-operative approach to the resolution of hemispheric problems. | |||
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Revision as of 15:45, 12 March 2006
By Suliman Nuranshah
The Good Neighbor Policy phrase was coined by President Herbert Hoover, not President Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover was on a goodwill trip to Latin America soon after his election in 1928 when he gave a speech in Honduras announcing, "We have a desire to maintain not only the cordial relations of governments with each other, but also the relations of good neighbors." The intention of the new policy was to mend relations with Latin American countries after they criticized the Coolidge Administration during the Sixth Pan-American Conference in Havana in 1928 for armed interventions in Haiti and Nicaragua. U.S. relations with Latin America were at an all-time low. The result of the Good Neighbor policy greatly changed relations between the United States and the Latin American countries. The policy was not explicitly contrary to the Roosevelt Corollary which it effectively superseded, but its tone foreshadowed a more co-operative approach to the resolution of hemispheric problems.
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