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  Good Neighbor Policy

  noun

  a diplomatic policy of the U.S., first presented in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt, for the encouragement of friendly relations and mutual defense among the nations of the Western Hemisphere.
• Good Neighbor policy
  Good Neighbor policy

  A United States foreign policy doctrine, adopted by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, designed to improve relations with Latin America. A reaction to the exploitative dollar diplomacy of the early 1900s, the Good Neighbor policy encouraged interaction between the United States and Latin America as equals. In the post– World War II era, however, the United States has often reverted to dollar diplomacy and gunboat diplomacy to impose its will on the countries of Latin America.

Good Neighbor Policy

American  

noun

1. a diplomatic policy of the U.S., first presented in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt, for the encouragement of friendly relations and mutual defense among the nations of the Western Hemisphere.

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Good Neighbor policy Cultural  

1. A United States foreign policy doctrine, adopted by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, designed to improve relations with Latin America. A reaction to the exploitative dollar diplomacy of the early 1900s, the Good Neighbor policy encouraged interaction between the United States and Latin America as equals. In the post– World War II era, however, the United States has often reverted to dollar diplomacy and gunboat diplomacy to impose its will on the countries of Latin America.

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Truman: Teddy's cousin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, publicly renounced the Monroe Doctrine and promised a hands-off attitude towards Latin America, which came to be known as the Good Neighbor Policy.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2021

They remained until 1934, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pulled them out as part of his new Good Neighbor Policy, which called for regional nonintervention.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2019

As an indirect product of the Good Neighbor Policy, by which the United States invested in South American ties, the movie had incentive to avoid negative portrayals.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2016

Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary was replaced by Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy, a conscious attempt to win friends to the south by reducing this nation’s political and military interventions in the region.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016

The Good Neighbor Policy is one of respect which begins with self-respect and then mutual respect.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tacho first got the promise of the road from President Roosevelt just before World War II, when the Good Neighbor policy was blowing hot.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the Good Neighbor policy, occupation became obsolete.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether Latin-American statesmen had been moved by the Good Neighbor policy or simply by a desire to jump on the band wagon now that the U.S. was acting vigorously, the immediate effect was the same.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sumner Welles, the professional diplomat who operated the Good Neighbor policy for six years as Under Secretary of State, now is a frequently bitter but always lucid critic of how his successors apply it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pampas Nights was one of those alleged South American musicals whipped up by a couple of submorons with the intent purpose of sabotaging the Good Neighbor policy.

From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various