Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-22
Criticism Of Monroe Doctrine
by Ex-MioiSter 10 United
States ArouSes lie OF For
mer President,
COLONEL DENIES THAT
IT IS DEAD ISSUE
Small Clique Of Students Makes
Demonstration Against AM
erican Statesman by Shout
i0g Viva Colombia

lhr MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL trAstb NlRri
Washington. Dec ~ Members OF
the diplomatic corps especially rep
rcsentativcs from tho South American
countries. were greatly interested In
report reaching Washington today
that former President Roosevelt and
Dr Marcial Martinez. at one time
chilean minister to the United States,
had clashed in Santiago de chile ON
account of divergent views on tho
Monroe doctrine Tho Chilean diplomat
Is reported to have dissentod strongly
from the Roosevelt view that the
much discussed doctrine is still % vital
issue. The reported debate attracted
rnusual interest hcre because botp
Of the prepared speeches were re-
Viewed before delivery hy the chilean
foreign office DR.. MARTINEZ. II was
said tonight nc the Chilean legation,
was selected because of his strong
friendship for the United states as
the spokesman of the Chilean govern
ment at the state reception given the
American visitor recently at the Uni
vcrsity of Santiago.
AU ms NiltINEN AN NflE AhNWN'hNAA lN
ception DR. MARTINEZ characterized
the Monroe doctrine as dead issue
and argued that the conditions which
gave rise 90 its pronunciation hy Pres
ideut Srenreo m 1890. have almost
entirely disappeared This statement
ia said TO have aroused the ire Of
Colonel Roosevelt Who replied, with
some heat. that the Monroe doctrine
still was "a vital principal of the for
elen policy of the United States. lie
is said. too TO have suggested to the
chilean diplomatist incidentally, that
81 was IN advised on such nm occasion
10 inaugurate a controversy.
Then Colonel Roosevelt according
to report. stated that before leaving
the United states. the texts OF the
addresses he proposed TO deliver In
Brazil Argentina and Chile had been
submitted to the diplomatic represen-
tatives Of those nations in Washing
ton to avoid the inclusion of anything
THAT might prove offensive TO his
hosts
To this Dr. Martinez is said to have
replied that his own address had been
submitted to the Chilean foreign Of
flee three days before Colonel Roose-
welt arrived and that as no objection
had been raised in that quarter he
could see no reason why the discus
sion Of the Monroe doctrine should be
avoided as a dangerous issue.
Nothing official has reached the
Chilean legation here concerning any
phase Of what diplomatists are in
clined to consider delicate situation
1T is true that the legation passed
upon Colonel Roosevelt's Santiago
speech, said Chilean Minister Suare2
tonight After reading the speech
had it translated into Spanish ana for
Warded it to the foreign minister
senor Enrique Villarez. / understood
that Colonel Roosevelt's speeches IN
Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Ayres
likewise were submitted to the Bra
lillian and Argentine foreign offices
as those addresses and the one de
livered in Santiago were TO be his
principal utterances during the South
American tour. ] cannot understand
how an issue could be raised between
Colonel Roosevelt and DR. Martinez
since the latter was selected to speak
in behalf Of Chile on account Of his
well known sympathy with the ideals
of the United States"
It Is said that at tlie conclusion OF
the Roosevelt reception, a demonstra
ton against the American visitor was
made by a small clique Of Central
American students. The story goes
that, as the colonel left the university
the students shouted.
viva Colombia"
This incident, however, is under
stood in no way to have represented
the general feeling Of the popuace