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To: Dayuhan who wrote (10352)	4/23/2002 4:01:48 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 21057

I doubt I can find anything that will meet your caveat "except when control of the colony was already slipping away". That does not mean that the United States was not, by and large, supportive of decolonization. Roosevelt made many overt statements to that effect; Truman may have balanced Cold War considerations against self- determination, but he continued with several of FDR's initiatives, like the UN, the timetable for Phillippine Independence, and a favorable attitude towards Indian independence. Eisenhower went so far as to oppose the British and French in their attempt to recapture the Suez Canal after its nationalization by Nasser, and the Kennedy Administration ushered in a revival of Wilsonianism......