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UNDER the title “American Foreign Policy” Prof. D. W. Brogan has given (Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs, No. 50. 4d. net) a brilliant and concise interpretation of the traditional outlook of the United States on world affairs, the policy which she has followed in recent years and the machinery by which that policy is carried out. The pamphlet should make a valuable contribution to that mutual understanding by the two peoples upon which alone effective collaboration can be based. What Prof. Brogan has to say about the United States as a missionary of freedom and of American sympathy with democracy, no less than his explanation of the machinery of American foreign policy and of the real meaning of the Monroe doctrine, should go far to remove some of the difficulties which the ordinary citizen of Great Britain experiences in understanding, and still more in reconciling, the high moral line taken in foreign affairs by American public opinion, and the much more realistic attitude of the Administration. In this lucid account, written with admirable detachment, particular attention is given to the development of policy since 1918, including the “Good–Neighbour” policy, the reactions of the rise of Nazism and the collapse of France on the Monroe doctrine and its application or interpretation and the influence of the war debts on American opinion. Prof. Brogan has rendered real service to Anglo–American collaboration and all that it involves by this admirable exposition of the ‘neutrality legislation’ and the factors weakening extreme isolationism and bringing the two democracies to such a declaration of common policy as that contained in the Atlantic Charter.
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American Foreign Policy. Nature 148, 625 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148625b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148625b0