While we are maintaining these moderate forces. we are especially anxious for the world to know that they are purely for defensive purposes and to promote general peace and tranquillity. No other nation has anything which we would think of taking by force. Our restrictive immigration law is a declaration of national policy against the acquisition of the territory of any foreign people. Though we have at this time some of our forces in Haiti. Nicaragua. and China. they are In none of these places for the purpose of making war. but for the purpose of insuring peaceful conditions under which the rights of our nationals and their property may receive that protection to which they are entitled under the terms of international law.
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