Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-09-28
SOUTH AMERICAN
 LAWYER ATTACKS
 MONROE DOCTRINE
Says Principle is Only fol North American
 Nations

| Buenos Aires, Sept. 20.-Ihe MOn- ! roe Doctrine is not doctrine of America for the Americans" but of America for the North Americans" declared pr. Lucio M Moreno Quin- tna, an Argentine lawyer and q grandson of a former president of Argentina in an address recently be- fore the law studnts of the Univers- ity of Buenos Aires in which he at tached the proposal made by Presi- dent Brum of Uruguay last April for the formation of an "American League.v
 President Brum's idea that the league should be based on declara- tion by all Latin-American countries similar to the Monroe Doctrine which would thus place them on a footing of equality with the United States in maintaining that doctrine, was asserted by Dr. Quintana to be dangerous one for Latin-America. He told the students that the danger lay in "North American imperialism, 7" for the Monroe Doctrine was an im- perialistic doctrine solely intended to maintain North American hegemony over the rest of the continent.
 Dr. Quitana contended that the safety of Latin-American countries lay in the formation of league ex- cluisvely among themselves, Latin American league of countries of the same origin, analogous customs, sim- liar language and protesting the same ideals and aspirations. It should be formed "with the end of. uniting their common interests and present. ing a defensive bloc against North American imperialism and against any European pretensions," though he believed the latter would be very remote.
 The recognition of the Monroe I Doctrine in Article 21 of the pact of the League of Nations was a mat ter, he said, @upon whose conse, quences for them, all the Latin-Am- erican countries, ought to meditate profundly." Although Dr. Brum's Pan-American concept was that of equality and franternity among all the nations of the two continents, pr. Quintana declared that any one who considered that the United States would pretend to treat the rest of the countries of America as equals and brothers was utopian.
 Charges Exploitation. He cited what he called instances of the continuous transgression of the Pan-American concept by the United States after the proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine, among them, "the successive separations of Mexico" "the armed Intervention of 1 the United States win European countries when it colle:. ed the pub lie debts of Venezuela" the threat of military intervention in Honduras and the demand of the United States upon Colombia that it enact a law for the exploitation of petro- leum on bases determined by the Yankee government under threat that Colombia would be deprived of it's indemnity of $25,000,000 voted by the Norh American parliament as compensation for an act whose in- justice even the Yankees recognize the separation from Colombia of Panama" The latter instance, says Dr. Quintana, "well charactcrizes the imperialistic ambitions of the great republic of the North"
 In reality, he declared, it ought be said that the United States is "a bastard brother in respect to the rest of the American countries. There does not exist between them and us the same tie of brotherhood that we Latin-American countries have among ourselves"
 The Monroe Doctrine, he continu- ed, "has served as an admirable in- strument for the United States to separate Europe from America and to establish it's hegemony over the latter. The United States has been at all times preoccupied in obtaining concessions of every kind at the cost of the sovereignty of the rest of the American states" He argued that the doctrine was dangerous because it was North American imperialism hidden under principle of interna- 1 tional lava"
 ] Dr. A. H. Sellars, Osteopath, Citi- 1o,,o RorL b,,ilJi,< J,,