Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-23
r TO MONROE
DOCTRINE ELECTS REPLY

Washington, Dec. 23.-Members Of
the diplomatic corps, especially rep
resentatives from the South Ameri-
can countries, were greatly interested
in report reaching Washington that
former President Roosevelt and DR..
Marcial Martinez, at one time Chilean
minister to the United States, clashed
in Santiago de Chile because of di
vergent views on the Monroe doctrine.
The Chilean is reported to have dis
sented strongly from the Roosevelt
view that the doctrine is still a 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 at
the Chilean legation, was elected be-
cause of his strong friendship for the
United States as the spokesman of
the Chilean government at the state
reception given the American visitor
recently at the University of San
tiago.
In his address at the Roosevelt re-
ception DR.. Martinez characterized the
Monroe doctrine as dead issue and
argued that the conditions which gave
rise to it's promulgation by President
Monroe in 1928 have almost entirely
disappeared.
This statement is said to have
aroused the ire of Colonel Roosevelt,
who replied with some heat, holding
that the Monroe doctrine still was a
vital principle of the foreign policy
of the United States. He is said, too,
to have suggested to the Chilean dip
lomatist that it was i'll advised on
such an occasion to inaugurate con-
troversy. .... ~ -
Then Colonel Roosevelt, according
to report, stated that before he left
the United States the text of the ad-
dresses he proposed to deliver in Bra
zil, Argentina and Chile had been sub
mitted to the diplomatic representa-
tives 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 submitted to the Chilean
foreign office three days before
Colonel Roosevelt's arrival and that
as no objection had been raised in
that quarter he could see no reason
why the discussion of the Monroe doc
trine should be avoided as a danger
Gus issue.
Nothing official has reached the
Chilean legation here concerning any
phase of what diplomatists are in
clined,to consider delicate situation.
at is true that the legation passed
upon Colonel Roosevelt's Santiago
Speech" Chilean Minister Saurez said.
"After reading the speech l had it
translated into Spanish and forwarded
it to the foreign minister, Senor En-
rique Villejas. l understood that
Colonel Roosevelt's speeches in Rio de
Janeiro and Buenos Ayres likewise
were submitted to the Brazilian and
Argentine foreign offices as those ad-
dresses and one delivered in Santiago
were to be his principal utterances
during the South American tour. l
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
because of his well known sympathy
with the ideals of the United States"
1t is said that at the conclusion of
the Roosevelt reception 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 understood
in no way to have represented the
general feeling of the populace.