The Cordova daily times., 1920-09-24
SAYS MONROE DOCTRINE IS
 IMPERIALISTIC

 Urine is not doctrine of America for the Americans" but of America for the North Americans" declared Dr. Lucio M. Moreno Quintana, an Ar genuine lawyer and a grandson of the former president of Argentine in an address recently before the law stu Aires in which he attacked the propos- al made by President Brum Of Uru- quay last April for the formation of an American League"
 Pres. Brums idea that the league should be based on declaration by all Latin-American countries sini- lar to the Monroe Doctrine which would place them on footing of equality with the U. s. In maintain ing that the doctrine was, asserted the Doctor, to be dangerous one for Lat in America. He told the students that the danger lay in North Ameri- can imperialism" for the Monroe Doc Urine was an imperialistic doctrine solely intended to maintain North Am erican hegemony over the rest of the continent
 Dr. Quintana contended that the safety of Latin American countries lay in the formation of a league ex- clusively among themselves, a 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 presenting a de- fensive bloc against North American imperialism and against any European pretensions," though he believed the latter would be very remote
 The recognition of the Monroe Doc Urine in Article Fl of the pact of the League of Nations was a matter, he said, upon whose consequences for them, all the Latin-American countries ought to mediate profundly." AL though Dr. Brum's Pan-American con- cept was that of equality and frater- nifty among all the nations of the two continents Dr. Quintana declared that any one who considered that the Uni ted States would pretend to treat the rest of the countries of America as equals and brothers was utOpian
 He cited what he called instances of the "cOntinuOus transgressiOn of the Pan-American concept by the Uni ted States after the proclamation of and the Successive separations of Mexico,' also "the armed intervention of the United States with European countries when it collected the public debts of Venezuela" the threat of mil itary intervention in Honduras and the demand of the United States upon Colombia that it enact a law for the exploitation of petroleum on bases determined by the Yankee govern
 
 would be deprived of it's indemnity of $25, 100000 voted by the North Ameri- can parliament as compensation for an act whose injustice the Yankees recognize-the separation from Col Ombia of Panama" The latter in- instance, says Dr. Quintana well 11o II, tions of the republic of the north"
 In reality, he declared, it ought to be said that the United States is "a bastard brother in every 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 continued, ''has served as an admirable instru- ment for the United States to separate Europe from America and to estab- fish it's hegemony over the latter. The United States has been at all times preoccupied in obtaining con- sessions 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 a principle of international alw."
 Dr. Quintana concluded by saying that the Pan-American league that Dr. Brum proposes, would be "an or ganization redounding exclusively to the beiefit of the United States which would convert itself judicially and of ficially into the director of America wies consequent impairment and evi- dent danger to the other countries of our continent"
 Dr. Quintana's address is now being