Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-22
'CH|LEAN AR0USES !.
L. ROOSEVELT T'S..|RE
T.INisi-
Clash on Account Of Diver
gent Views on Monroe
Doctrine.
IS NOT A DEAD ISSUE.
Demonstration Follows the Friction
And Becomes Theme for Consider
able Comment.

washington, Dec. 22.-MemberS of
the diplomatic corps, especially rep
resentatives from the South Ameri-
can countries, were greatly interested
in a report reaching WASHINGTON that
Foraer President Roosevelt and Dr..
Marcial Martinez, at one tine Chilean
minister to the United States, had
clashed on account Of the divergent
views on the Monroe doctrine. Tine
Chilean is reported to have strongly
dissentei from the Roosevelt view
that the much-discussed doctrine still
is 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 to-
night at the Chilean legation, was Sc
lected as the spokesman of the Chile
an government at the state reception
given the American visitor recently at
the University OF Santiago, because of
his warm friendship for the United
States. He is one Of the oldest and
most eminent Chilean diplomatists,a ,and
made many lasting friendships during
his tenure as minister here many
years ago.
In his address at the Roosevelt re-
ception, DR.. Martinez dealt with the
Monroe doctrine, characterizing it as
dead issue, and arguing that the
conditions which give rise 20 its pro-
mitigation by President Monroe in
1922 have almost entirely disappear
ed. 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 di-
ploaati incidentally, that it was i'll
advised on such an occasion 70 inaugu-
rate controversy.
Nothing official has reached the
Chilean legation here concerning any
phase of what diplomatists arc in
clined to consider delicate situa-
Loo
at is true that the legation psssed
upon Colonel Roosevelt's Santiago
Speech said Senior Don Eduardo
Suarez, Chilean minister tonight
after reading the speech / had 1T
translated into Spanish an6 forward
ed it to the foreign minister, Senior
enrique Villejas. understood that
Colonel Roosevelt's speech in Rio de
Janeiro and Buenos Aires likewise
were submitted to the Brazilian and
Argentine Foreign Offices. as those
addresses and the one delivered in
Santiago were to be his principal ut
terances during the South American
tour.
az cannot understand how an issue
could be raised between Colonel
Roosevelt and DR.. Martinez, since the
latter was selected to speak IN he
half of Chile on account OF his we'll
known sympathy with the ideals OF
the United States"
1t is said that at the conclusion OF
the Roosevelt, reception, denions.ra-
tion 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 "Vive Colon
bia.' ."
This incident, however, is under
stoodin no way to have presented the
general feeling of the populace.
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