Good Neighborism of 1927

• Coolidge and Hoover sought to end military interventions in hemisphere 1
  
• Marines pulled out of Nicaragua 1925 but sent back 1927
• Coolidge sent Henry Stimson to Nicaragua April 1927 for "American-chaperoned elections" by staining fingers with mercurochrome
• but Marines stayed in Nicaragua until 1933 due to Sandino
• Coolidge in 1927 had made Amherst classmate and Morgan banker Dwight Morrow ambassador to Mexico
• Morrow brought Lindbergh to Mexico late 1927 as "Ambassador of the Air"
  
• Morrow-Calles agree to allow pre-1917 subsoil ownership, slow land expropriation and anti-clerical measures
• "the first real beginnings of the embryonic Good Neighbor Policy"
• but Cardenas reversed agreements in 1930s and Lindbergh became an isolationist
• Nelson Rockefeller expanded the Good Neighbor policy

Clark Memo of 1928

• State Department's J. Reuben Clark wrote 236-page memo Dec. 17, 1928
• repudiated the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary's "police power" interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine
• but reserved the right of intervention for defense