After the chaos of the boxer rebellion Hay called for an expanded "Open Door Policy," for all parts of China. ... Propaganda was spreading like wild fire through America; the people were fired up and were in the mood for war. ... If every country washed by the Carribean Sea would show the progress in stable and just civilization which, with the aid of the Platt Amendment, Cuba has shown since our troops left the island, and which so many of the republics in both Americas are constantly and brilliantly showing, all questions of interference by this nation with their affairs would be at an end. ...

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