Sentence:  Mexico , Panama , and Venezuela are displaying open sympathy for Castroism , and there is no country - save the Dominican Republic whose funeral services we recently arranged - where Castroism and anti Americanism does not prevent the government from unqualifiedly espousing the American <WSD>cause</WSD> . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end