New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
MONROE DOCTRINE UNDER DISCUSSION
American Academy of Science Holds Annual Meeting.
NOTED MEN ADDRESS ASSEMBLY

Holm Barrett Declares Time Has
 Come For a .sPan American Policy
 Rear Admiral F. E. Chadwick
 Terms ssLatin America a Misnomer.
 Philadelphia, April 3.--The pres ent international relations ana opn- cations of the United States is the general topic under discussion at tn1s years annual meeting of the Ameri- can Academy of Political and Social Science, which began here today. The sessions were opened with a discus sion of the present status of the Monroe Doctrine" The Mexican slt- uation. it's problems and obligations will be taken up tonight, and at to- morrow's sessions addresses will be made on the policy of the United States in the Pacific and on the ele- ments of constructive American foreign policy. aSe
 John Barrett, director general of the Pan American Union presided at the opening session, and among the papers read was one by Rear Admiral Y. E OHdOW1Ch, TcClTcu.
 Pan American Policy.
 MT. Barrett declared that the time had come for Pan American Policy as a substitute for the Mon- roe Doctrine.
 By that.' he said, 1T mean a poll icy acceptable to and approved by all the American republics, a policy be- longing to each and all on the same basis of attitude and action. Each nation should have the same sense of independence as the United States, the same dignity of position. By eliminating the attitude of absolute dictation and centralized power a long step will be taken toward a new era of Pan American comity and con- fidence.'
 The term Latin America" is a mis- homer as applied to the South Ameri- can republics. according to Rear Ad- nliral F. E. Chadwick. U. s. N., re- tired. who spoke on "Berberic- America
 ''The spanish and Portuguese races to which the governing classes in all the republics to. the south of us belong began as Berbers and remain essera- tially Rerber-NIo today, scarcely changed at bottom from their rela-. .ions across the straits in Morocco and the Atlas he said.
 'sIt is this lack of comprehension Of what race character means that causes our trouble he continued We do not understand the other man, and until we recognize our ignorance in this regard, until we accept the great fundamental specific tempera- 1,r1 1oft oF yrrr1,< 70, c%fr we shall be unsuccessful in our re- lAtions toward these brother repub- lics.''
 He declared that the Monroe Doc trine no longer applied to South American states as 1t did when the Holy alliance in Europe threatened to reduce the feeble provinces of South America to the dominion of Spain.7
 "To apply this doctrine in the sense Of standing by as a protector Is naturally an irritant to g people in whom pride is a predominant char Ecteristic," he said. I've know that intimation of such an attitude does irritate. Thus if we desire friendship, good fellowship and kindly feeling, why hold to any attitude of Irritation and prevent this very desirable kindly feeling? certainly can see no reason for it."
 Suspicious Are Accentuated
 Leopold Graham, of New York, pre- senting the Latin view Of the Mon roe Doctrine, said that the doubts and suspicious of the Latin republics as to the ultimate aims of the United States are accentuated by the extension of k>>S.~ <<~.& contemplated by it's author, Tt is such incidents as those which have occurred in Mexico, NHcarag qua and in Colombia" he said, That have led to a growing belief in the supposed desire on the part of the United States to establish a suzerafnty over some of the republics of Central and South America
 If the Monroe Doctrine of 1923 had not expanded with the lapse of time or taken on new phases with the de- velopment of new situations, said John H. Latane professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, it would long since have ceased to be of any value, for the exact situation that called forth the original declaration in 1923 can never again arise.
 Many Changes Occur.
 "The Monroe Doctrine is merely a name that Americans have given for ninety years to our Latin American } policy" he said, which in the neces- sity of things has undergone changes and will continue to undergo them,
 NO MEILEN DECISION.
 Bridgeport, Conn.,. April .3-This was Judge Joseph P. Tuttle's last day on the bench of the criminal superior