Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It was recognized that it would be contrary to the interests of the American republics to permit the European possessions in the New World to become a subject of barter in the settlement of European differences and that such a situation would involve a threat to the peace and security of the hemisphere.

09/12/1940

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