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TURNER, JOHN KENNETH. Hands off Mexico. pa 35c Rand school of social science 327
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This pamphlet is devoted to an exposition of the motives that lie back of intervention propaganda, and concludes with a plea to the American people to make common cause with the people of Mexico against the interests that are a menace to both. In proposing his solution the author says, “In the cause of the Mexican ‘problem’ is found its solution. As our meddling has been a decisive factor in creating and prolonging the disorder, and in subjecting Americans to danger, so an opposite policy would tend to produce the opposite result. We must stop threatening Mexico, stop invading Mexico, stop embargoing Mexico, enter into a fair agreement for policing the border, keep a few of our fine promises, make a fair trial of treating our neighbor as an equal.”