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We speak in no spirit of arrogance when we state as a simple historic fact that never in recent times has any great nation acted with such disinterestedness as we have shown in Cuba.
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Roosevelt claims that the U.S. has acted with unprecedented disinterest in its dealings with Cuba.
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