Arizona republican., 1914-04-29
N0T A POLICY
 OF DUR NATION
Outlook Declares That Larger South American Countries Should Have as Great Interest in Mon- roe Doctrine as U. $.

the following SerleS or questions DE Professor blakeslee. of Clark unl- versity who was to present Il paper at the meeting of the American SO oiety oI International Law at Wash ington. April 22 to A:
 l. Should the Monroe Doctrine, as now generally understood and inter- preted in the United States and in Latin America, be continued without either modification or further defini- ton?
 H. Doe it need clearer interpreta- ton?
 d. For the people of the United States!
 b. For the people of Latin America?
 lil Should the stable Latin American states Cat present Argen- ! tina. Brazil and Chiie) be regarded by the United States as supporters oi the Monroe doctrine. a. Should this support be limited to tie defense of their own lands
 from European conquest; or
 Should they be invited to CO., operate with the United States in interpreting and enforcing the Mon
 roe doctrine wherever it may apply on this hemisphere?
 ". should il be abandoned? i d. Entirely?
 b. Below the equator? or c. Only so far as concerns the 1 stable Latin American states CAT 1 gentina, Brazil and Chile)? i Y. Other views, comments and reasons, if any.
 1 The answers were:
 1 l. II is inconceivable to us that a i policy of any sort can be continued without being subject to change l Even the statute laws. though re- i rnaining unamended on the statute books are. as q matter of fact con stantly subject to change through the interpretations of the courts. The constitution of the United 1 States wholly apart from the amend ments which have been made to it. i has been changing and developing. i Of course such a policy as that orig
 finally enunciated as the Monroe doc
 Urine has been changed in the course of the years, and will continue to
 change. Like everything else that
 has to do with living things, it is
 subject to evolution. No power on earth can prevent such evolutionary
 notifications.
 II. The Monroe doctrine certainly does need clearer interpretation for tboth tO the people of the United nd hn af I f,, America. In this, however the Monroe doctrine does not stand
 alone. Our whole current history
 needs clearer interpretation. Indeed, it is one of the signs of civilization in a country that there are inter preters of that country to itself. The
 stagnant countries are those whose common people have no adequate means of information and interpreta- tion. It is one of the functions of a
 statesman to be an interpreter. as il is one of the functions of the news : paper. In particular. the Monroe icoctrine needs intelligent interpreta- ton to the American people because circumstances have not made it ne- cessary for them to think very much about foreign affairs. We have req
 son to believe, judging from the ut terances of some prominent South
 Americans. that there is need in South America also of an intelligent interpretation of the Monroe doc
 Urine.
 III. We believe that Argentina.
 Brazil and Chile ought to be sup porters of the Monroe doctrine if for no other reason than that of self interest: and we believe that in any
 action which the United States takes
 1t ought to assume that these three great republics of the south are in
 fact supporters of that doctrine. | (a) This support of the Monroe doc l trine by these three great republics 1 should emphatically not be limited to the defense of their own lands
 from European conquest: for they i are as much interested as we are in
 keeping the western hemisphere free rom European entanglements (b) We therefore emphatically believe
 that whenever the United States has occasion to interpret and enforce the
 Monroe doctrine the United States
 should take it for granted that it has tie approval of Argentina, Bra gil and Chile, and in any instance which involves. or may involve in ! terVention the United States ought
 to invite their cooperation. ". It follows from what we have
 said that the Monroe doctrine should not be abandoned in any respect. t, tO Of course it ought not to be abandoned entirely. tb) To abandon 1t be'ow the equator would be euui- Valent to saying to Argentina. Brazil and Chile that, whereas we would want them to cooperate with us in enforcing the Monroe doctrine in our own neighborhoOd, we should have nothing to do with cooperating
 with them in enforcing it in their neighborhood. The mere statement or that proposition is enough to show that it is untenablt. TO pro-
 pose that it be abandoned as far as concerns the stable South American states-Arsentina, Brazil and Chile
 is to assume that the Monroe doc
 trine remains merely a policy of the ! United States, whereas it is, or
 ought to be, as much a part of the
 policy of those three countries as Of our country
 V. We believe that the Monroe doctrine. so far from being aban- doned or becoming obsolete, is going | to become more and more an i'm
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