Richard Olney, Secretary of State, invokes the Monroe Doctrine in the boundary dispute between Venezuela and the British enclave of Guiana (sic): “Today the United [s]tates is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.”
[restored 5/21/2022]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 242.
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