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If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.
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Roosevelt reassures that nations maintaining order and fulfilling obligations will not face U.S. interference.
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