If we could find some friendly use for these navies and armies and kings and things--in the service of humanity--they'd follow us.

We ought to find a way to use them in cleaning up the tropics under our leadership and under our code of ethics--that everything must be done for the good of the tropical peoples and that nobody may annex a foot of land.

They want a job.
Then they'd quit sitting on their haunches, growling at one another.
I wonder if we couldn't serve notice that the land-stealing game is forever ended and that the cleaning up of backward lands is now in order--for the people that live there; and then invite Europe's help to make the tropics as healthful as the Panama Zone?
There's no future in Europe's vision--no long look ahead.

They give all their thought to the immediate danger.

Consider this Balkan War; all European energy was spent merely to keep the Great Powers at peace.