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27. For discussion, and comparison of Japanese behavior in Manchuria to
the American invasion of South Vietnam, see my American Power and
the New Mandarins (Pantheon, 1969), chapter 2.
28. Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books, Nov. 22, 1984.
29. Anderson, Matanza, 157; LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, 152; Allan
Nairn, The Progressive, May 1984; see also the issue of April 4, 1985,
for comment on criticism of Nairn’s important study, to which we return.
30. William Y. Elliot, ed., The Political Economy of American Foreign Policy
(Holt, 1955), 42. See my At War with Asia (Pantheon, 1970), for
further discussion of this revealing work.
31. Gregorio Selser, Sandino (Monthly Review, 1981), 104.
32. V. G. Kiernan, America: The New Imperialism (Zed, 1978), ii.
33. Connell-Smith, Inter-American System, 2; Dexter Perkins, The Monroe
Doctrine, three volumes (1927, 1933, 1937; reprinted by Peter Smith,
1965-6), I, 9-10.
34. Perkins, Monroe Doctrine, III, 63; Connell-Smith, Inter-American System,
10, 5; Perkins, II, 318, referring specifically to Mexico.
35. Gabriel Kolko, Main Currents in American History (Pantheon, 1984), 47;
Taft, quoted by Pearce, Under the Eagle, 17; Connell-Smith, Inter-
American System, 16; the reference in the latter case is to Mexico.
36. Perkins, Monroe Doctrine, III, 161; Millet, Guardians of the Dynasty, 52.
37. Perkins, Monroe Doctrine, III, 396.
38. Connell-Smith, Inter-American System, 48-9, 15.
39. Lester Langley, The Banana Wars (U. of Kentucky, 1983), 26; Hubert
Herring, cited by Connell-Smith, 15.
40. LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, 50f.
41. LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, 54-8, 75-6.
42. Gabriel Kolko, Politics of War (Random House, 1968), 302f. On US oil
policy in the context of general postwar global planning, see TNCW,
chapters 2, 11.
43. Connell-Smith, Inter-American System, 81f.
44. LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, 78f.