Any arrangement which had guaranteed Algeria against the French, or Turkestan against the Russians, or the Sudan against the English, or Panama against the Americans, would have been an arrangement against the interests of humanity and civilization, and against the interests of the natives of the countries themselves.
Roosevelt asserts that arrangements protecting certain regions from colonial powers would harm both humanity and the natives.
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