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« on: March 17, 2012, 07:41:47 PM » |
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Such can only be determined with the benefit of hindsight though. At the time, the concern that Japan or someone else would take over was a real concern and was desired to be avoided at all costs. It is not like McKinley could have known that World War I would end the German colonial empire or that the British would have objected to Japanese conquest of the islands at the time when decisions were being made in 1899 and 1900.
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