Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-18
GERMANY AND THE MONROE
DOCTRINE.
A dispatch from Berlin SAYS d

A dispatch from Berlin says that
representative Germans, including di-
rectors of the Disconto Bank, the
Deutsche Bank and large exporting
firms have been interviewed to ascertain
the sentiment as to recognition of the
Monroe doctrine. There is feeling
strongly in favor OF official recognition OF
the doctrine by the government. Lead
ing financial and commercial representa-
tives insist that the friction between
Germany and the United States can
easily be avoided in the future if the
German government formally recognizes
the policy of the United States toward
South America. They also insist that
German trade relations cannot be re-
stored to normal basis unless this issue
is decided for all time. A director of the
Deutsche Bank said: ''The German gov
ernment should recognize the Monroe
doctrine. The Venezuelan trouble
proved that Germany cannot be any
thing in South America without officially
admitting the protection of the United
States. If the agreement exists between
Berlin and Washington, why is it not
made public so as to prove that there is
no arrangement on account OF the Vene-
zuelan afiair?'
Considerable interest mingled with
anxiety has been aroused in Govern
ment and naval circles by cablegram
stating that an American naval squadron
is going to European waters. This is
interpreted in Berlin as demonstration
of American naval power and retort
to the German campaign against Vene-
zuela.
Germany has no intention of with
drawing or reducing its fleet in South
American waters with the abandonment
of the Venezuelan blockade and the
peaceful settlement of the claims against
that republic. On the contrary, it is
said, representations will now be made
to enforce payment of debts from Brazil
and Colombia. Barely has the cloud of
the Venezuelan case passed when an
other rises in the form of German de-
mands upon Colombia, which may bring
about special complications, owing to
negotiations for the construction of the
Panama canal by the United States.
The Foreign Office said:
Ernest Won Wildenbruch, Emperor
Williams favorite contemporary poet,
and sometimes for that reason called the
court poet, las written an article on
Germany and the Monroe Doctrine,
in which he says it Is clearly in a line
with Germany's interest and policy to
Join with the United States in maintain
ing the Monroe doctrine and expresses
the hope that the United States will ex-
tend its authority over all Latin Ameri-
ca. "This," the poet says, "may be
the greatest struggle of the twentieth
century. 1t will be a contest of the
Germanic race against Latindom. Ger
many started the struggle against it
in 1870 and America continued 1t IN
1898. 1t is the inevitable strife of the
Germanic against the Latin races,
which must continue until the Germanic
race is supreme. In this struggle no
German can be in doubt as to where his
sympathies and active aid should 60"
Herr Won Wildenbruch urges Germany
to make an explicit and positive declara-
ton in favor of the Monroe doctrine SO
that all the world may know where she
stands and thus remove any doubt what
ever that Germany is with the United
States and that Germany has absolutely
no occasion to be hostile to the Monroe
doctrine, and on every occasion sup