But I tell you frankly, Pen, I never heard of anything of the sort being done from Washington." "Perhaps not," she answered composedly.

"You see, things have developed with us during the last twenty-five years.

The old America had only one foreign policy, and that was to hold inviolate the Monroe doctrine.
European or Asiatic complications scarcely even interested her.

Those times have passed, Dicky.

Cuba and the Philippines were the start of other things.