For it firmly rejected in the Cuban adjustments the immoral doctrine that an ill-treated and revolting colony, after gaining its freedom, must still submit to the extortion from it of the cost of the parent country's unsuccessful efforts to subdue it.
He critiques the notion that newly independent nations should bear the financial burdens of their former colonizers' military failures.
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