The Structure of American Expan – sionism at the Turn of the Century

[..] The globalists enthusiastically supported the policy of annexation after the Spanish-American War. Many widely varying types of    motive were produced in favor of expansion, but the American   consul-general in Shanghai, John Goodnow, went to the heart of the matter and spoke for many globalists when he declared before the peace treaty had been signed: ”We should hold the Philippine islands, the Caroline islands and the Ladrone islands, also Cuba and Porto Rico. It does not matter whether we call them war indemnity or what. We need them in our business.”   Artikeln kan läsas här:     US expansionism