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| The policy was not explicitly contrary to the ] which it effectively superseded, but its tone foreshadowed a more co-operative approach to the resolution of hemispheric problems. | The policy was not explicitly contrary to the ] which it effectively superseded, but its tone foreshadowed a more co-operative approach to the resolution of hemispheric problems. | ||
| The Disney film ] was made at the urging of the Roosevelt Administration as part of the Good Neighbor Policy. | |||
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The "Good Neighbor" policy was the policy of the United States Administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in relation to Latin America and Europe during 1933-45, when the active U.S. intervention of previous decades was moderated in pursuit of hemispheric solidarity against external threats.
In his first inaugural address on assuming the presidency (March 4, 1933), 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 Disney and Carmen Miranda were produced in order to help influence the policy with the American people. In reference to Europe during the beginning of WWII, Roosevelt likened the good neighbor policy to the belief that if your neighbor's house is on fire, you don't stop to barter over the price of your garden hose. He used this in defense of giving the Allies economic aid before the U.S. entered the war.
The policy was not explicitly contrary to the Roosevelt Corollary which it effectively superseded, but its tone foreshadowed a more co-operative approach to the resolution of hemispheric problems.
The Disney film Saludos Amigos was made at the urging of the Roosevelt Administration as part of the Good Neighbor Policy.