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| | FDR on the Good Neighbor Policy |
 | | There is inspiration in the thought that on this day the attention of the citizens of the twenty-one Republics of America is focused on the common ties-historical, cultural, economic, and social-which bind them to one another. |
 | | The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor, namely, mutual understanding, and, through such understanding, a sympathetic appreciation of the other's point of view. |
 | | In this spirit the people of every Republic on our continent are coming to a deep understanding of the fact that the Monroe Doctrine, of which so much has been written and spoken for more than a century was and is directed at the maintenance of independence by the peoples of the continent. |
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