The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-05
FOREIGN POLICY
 ONLY SPORADIC
w. MORGAN SHuSTER, RECENT FlNANcIER OF PERSIA, THINKS
 LITTLE OF OURS.
Says Occasional References to Mon roe Doctrine Is About the Extent of Our Policy Abroad.

Philadelphia. April 4-W. Morgan Shuster. recently treasuer general and financial adviser of Persia, who spoke here tonight before the Ameri- can Academy of Political and Social Science on The Elements 'of Con- structive American Foreign Policy" said:
 "The foreign policy of the United States mp to the present time, so far as there has been any at all, has con- sisted of sporadic asseyerations of the Monroe doctrine
 In building up a constructive for eign policy the first need, he said, was new patriotism in which na- tional honor should stand above na- tional welfare. He said American statesmen should educate their coun- trymen on the broad lines of modern diplomacy which are slowly but surely displacing the former system of deceit, subterfuge. evasion and trickery." He argued for perman- ency and Continuity and nol-partisan- ship in foreign policy; for the com plete submergence of the theory of state rights and sovereignty in so far as they might come into conflict with treaty making powers of the fed. eral government; for the creation and maintenance of a highly trained non-l political, non-partisan diplomatic and consular service, which would acquit itself with credit when pitted against the trained minds of states men of the important nations of the world; for strict observance of treaty obligations with large coun. tries or small, and for every encour- agement for the formation and em- pioyment of arbitral tribunals.
 MT. Shuster pointed to the words of President Wilson in his Mobile speech of October 27, 1913:
 It is a very perilous thing tol determine a foreign policy in terms of material interest. It is, indeed, a degrading thing.
 That is language, said MT. Shus- ter, which might well be placed on the top of the stationery of our state department, but the president was dreaming, he said, when in the same address he declared that the United States deemed it duty to assist in the emancipation of states which were in danger of being domi- mated by foreign interests because of concessions granted"
 MT. Sinister termed this "a remark able example of the state of mental guardianship which those who sub- scribe to the bundle of declarations known as the Monroe doctrine are apt to feel toward all other nations" He said under no previous construc- tion of that doctrine had the United States ever attempted to say what concessions should or should not be granted by any Latin-American na- tion. It was policy analogous to telling a man who is starving to death that he should not pawn or sell his watch.
 As to the Mexican situation, Mir. Shuster avoided extended reference, but he declared that the idea of a "Pan-American intervention" was i'm. practicable, Common sense, fair play and prudence" he said. "all urge upon the American people a closer and more Harmonious understanding with the leading European nataions in the solution of the Mexican situa- tioa. and any suggestion having a contrary tendency is harmful and even dangerous"