The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-22
ROOSEVELT IN
CONTROVERSY
WITH CHILEAN
DR.. Marcial Martinez Replies
to an Address by ex-Presi-
dent and Calls Monroe
Doctrine Dead Issue.
INCIDENT AROUSES
IRE OF AMERICAN
Climax Comes at Close of Re.
ception, When a Party of
Students Shout ''Viva
Colombia"

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-Members
OF the diplomatic corps, especially rep.
resentatives from the South American
countries, were greatly interested in a
report reaching Washington today thaa
former President Roosevelt and DR.
Marcial Martinez, at one time Chilean
minister to the United States, had
clashed IN Santiago de Chile on ac-
count of divergent views on the Mon
roe doctrine. The Chilean is reported
to have dissented strongly from the
Roosevelt view that the much discussed
doctrine is still vital issue.
The reported debate attracted un-
usual interest here Because both Of the
prepared speeches were reviewed before
delivery by the Chilean foreign office.
DR.. Martinez, it was said tonight at
the Chilean legation, was selected be-
cause of his strong friendship for the
United States as the spok esman Of the
Chilean government at the state recep.
-tion given the American visitor recent
ly at the University Of Santiago.
Called 1t a Dead Issue.
In his address at the Roosevelt re.
ception DR. Martinez characterized the
Monroe doctrine as dead issue and
argued that the condition which gave
rise TO its PRONUNCIATION by President
Monroe in 1923 have almost entirely
disappeared. This statement is said to
have aroused the ire Of Colonel Roosc-
welt, who replied with some heat, hold
ing that the Monroe doctrine still was
vital principle of the foreign policy
of the United States. He is said, too,
TO have suggested TO the Chilean diplo-
matist, incidentally, that it was ill-ad-
vised on such an occasion to inauguraSo
controversy.
Then Colonel Roosevelt. according to
the report, stated that before leaving
the United States the texts Of the ad-
dresses he proposed to deliver in Bra
I'll, Argentina and Chile had been sub.
mitted TO the diplomatic representatives
of those nations in Washington, 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 sub.
mitted TO the Chilean foreign office
three days before Colonel Roosevelt IS
arrival, and that as no objection had
been raised in that quarter he could
see no reason why the discussion of the
Monroe doctrine should be avoided as
a dangerous issue.
Consider Situation Delicate"
Nothing official has reached the Chi
lean legation here concerning any phase !
of what diplomatists are inclined 70
consider delicate situation,
"It is true that the legation passed |
upon Colonel Roosevelt's Santiago |
Speech said Chilean Minister Saurez !
tonight. After reading tho speech |
had It translated into Spanish and for.
wardod it to the foreign minister, Sc
nor Enrique Villejas, | understood |
that Colonel Roosevelt S speeches in
Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, like.
wise were submitted 10 the Brazilian
and Argentine foreign offices as those
addresses and the one delivered in San.
tiago were to be his principal utter
anccs 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 wellknown sympathy
with the ideals Of the United States. "
II is said that at the conclusion of
the Roosevelt reception demonstra-
ton against the American visitor WINS
made by small clique of Central
American students, The story goes
that, as the colonel left the university.
the students shouted ''Yiva Colomr
Dia. f" This incident, however. is under,
stood in no way to have represented