In the last resort, and only in the last resort, it may occasionally be necessary to interfere by exercising what is virtually an international police power, if only to avoid seeing some European power forced to exercise it.
Roosevelt acknowledges that there may be times when the U.S. must intervene internationally to prevent European powers from doing so.
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