Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-29
WAR
MIGHT ENTANGLE
UNITED STATES
Should Canada Be Invaded by
Germany Monroe Doctrine
Would Mean Intervention

That there is only one possibility Of
the United States being >,raSged into
the European war, and that Is provjd.
ing Germany should take it into her
head to Invade Canada, is the opinion
of United States army officers, who, OF
course, are closely following the Euro,
pean developments Should there be
a German invasion of Canada, this
country must step in and interfere o.
else declare the Monroe doctrine null
and void, many officers say. This could
only come about, however. If England
lost control of the sea-
In his international law digest, John
Bassett Moore, probably the leading
authority on this subject on this con.
tlnent, quotes authority that would
plainly show that the Monroe doctrine
is absolutely against European utter.
ference even in Canada. subject of a
European power, and that the moral
duty of this country would be to say,
Hands on in case Germany should
invade Canada:
President Polk, in his annual mes.
sage OF December 2, 1915, says: Eek,
listing rights of every European nation
should be respected; but it is due alike
to our safety and our interest that the
efficient protection of our laws should
be extended over our whole territorial
limits, and that IL should be distinctly
announced to the world as our settled
policy, that no future European colony
or dominion shall, with our consent,
be planted or established on any part
of the North American continent
Thomas jefferson, writing to Presi-
dent Monroe under date of October "a,
1923, said: Our first and fundamental
maxim should be never to entangle
ourselves IN the broils of Europe; cur
second, never to suffer Europe to med.
die with cisatlantic affairs
Should Resist Invaders.
President Monroe. writing to Thomas
Jefferson October IL. 1923, plainly sig.
nified what he considered TO be the
plan and scope of the Monroe doctrine
in possible case such as Is up at pres.
ent-that ID, the chance of Germany
invading Canada, for he said:
My own impression is that we ought
to meet he proposal of the British
government and make it known that
we would view an interference on the
part of the European powers, and es.
pecially an attack on the colonies by
them. as an attack upon ourselves, pre-.
Stunning that IL they succeeded with
them, they would extend it with u.s.
| Foster, in his Century of American
Diplomacy" says: 81 think it may bt
fairly deduced that the principle OF
policy of the government of the United
States, known as the Monroe doctrine
declares affirmatfvely:
"First-That no European power, OF
combination of powers, can intervene
in the affairs OF this hemisphere fol
the purpose, or with the effect, of forci
bly, changing the form of government
of the nations, or controlling the fret
will of their people. @"
"Secohd-That no such power OF
powers scan. permanently acquire OF
hold any new territory or dominion or
this hemisphere. III -. -.
'Third-That the colonies or terri
tories now held by them cannot be en-
larged by encroachment on neighbor
ing territory, nor be transferred to any
other European power"