New Britain herald., 1916-01-04
PREPARE ID DEFEND
 MONROE DOCTRINE
National Defense Plan Calls for
 Big Enough Army and Navy

Washington, Jan- Accessibility of S combined attack by two foreign powers to break down the new. Pan American doctrine evolved from main- tenance by the United States and &C., ceptance by South and Central Am erican republics of the Monroe Doc kFine is one of the fundamental bases for the national defense plans formu- lated by army and navy strategists. They believe it essential in this for mutation of a national military policy, 1t was learned last night, to provide against the eventuaiity of an assault upon the doctrine by either an Asiatic or European power, or even by, an alliance of two such powers, which might hurl forces simultaneously at the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
 A navy equal in strength to those of any two world powers, except Great Britain, and an army prepared to fight for the integrity of the Pan America idea anywhere in Pan Amer ica is the ultimate aim of the plans of the military experts.
 Ten Years to Prepare.
 Ten years is the time the navy gen. eral board believes the United States has in which to prepare for a read justment of world forces which will follow the European war In setting 1925 as the time when the United States navy should equal any float which means reaching the two-Dower standard of the British navy-the board estimated that such time would elapse before the shock of the press ent war passed sufficiently to permit op South or Central America for colonial development of trade aggression.
 Plans of the army war college would be consummated in six years. The army officers take the position that the United States must have sufficient troops and troopships to land forces In any threatened Pan-American country to meet an invader
 Presented by Stratcgists.
 All these preparations, it is now known, have been presented by strat- egists to the administration as essen- tial to support the Monroe Doctrine, so that the United States may be able to act alone, If necessary, to Epreserve It's ideal of no entangling alliances. Such ideals, the military students have stated impose new duties on the
 
 something more than a policy of mere passive resistance.
 While the administrative branch of the government has submitted to Con- gress a definite plan which cOntem- plates an increased expenditure of more than a billion dollars, on the : military and naval establishment in the next six years, all other agencies of the government are acting to unify and harmonize the Pan-American na- tons. To students of diplomacy, the , Pan-American declarations of Presi- dent Wilson in his opening address tC congress; the declarations for Pan American unity made to the Pan American scientific congress here by Secretary Lansing, and the general effort for unity of all the Americas on a basis of friendship and equality -,take on added significance when con- sidered in connection with the admin lstration's preparedness plans.
 Significant Factor.
 The recent announcement that the ambassadors from Argentina, Brazi and Chile had been selected by the United States to represent it on the commissions provided by the peace Investigation treaties with France Great Britain and taly, is regarded as