[Walker]

Кстати, к вопросу о внешней политике США.


In 1913 there had been a military coup in Mexico, to the grave displeasure of Woodrow Wilson, who resolved 'to teach the South American Republics to elect good men'.

Walter Page, then Washington's man in London, reported a conversation with the British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, who asked:

- Suppose you have to intervene, what then?
- Make 'em vote and live by their decisions.
- But suppose they will not so live?
- We'll go in and make 'em vote again.
- And keep this up for 200 years?
- Yes - said I - The United States will be here for two hundred years and it can continue to shoot men for that little space till they learn to vote and to rule themselves.'


Niall Ferguson.

"Empire"