Arizona republican., 1921-02-20
SOU I'll AMI ERICA. NOT DEPENDENT
 ON COMMERCE OF
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 PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 19.-America represents the conception of the Mon roe doctrine. which defines it as mantle of protection or expression of power by North Americans, but &C., cepts it as an expression of fraternal relations between the two continents, Secretary Colby declared in an address before the Academy of Political and Social Science tonight.
 Describing his voyage to South America. he emphasized the cultural and economic development of that continent and how little the people there feel that they are dependent on the United States
 North Americans who are to suc- ceed in relations with South Ameri- cans, he said. will be those who under stand the right psychological approach to Latin America and are willing 10 contribute something to it's civiliza- ton, not merely to seek opportunities to exploit it.
 "Arnerica's position in South Ameri- tca today he said, lis hardly visible. The trade built up during the war is vanishing and the merchants are turn 1 ing to their old friends in Europe who speak the same language and have the same sympathieS.
 Concerning the Monroe doctrine, he said it had two aspects: historic l principle of United States policy and a 1 factor in fraternaI relations with South America today.
 1 II think Roosevelt and Wilson saw 1 the Monroe doctrine develop into some I thing bigger and broader than when ] 1t was first SaSnctataa to protect states | while going through their early trials, | he said. Thus defined, South Ameri- | ca accepts it.
 But the concept which affronts these sensitive peoples is an expression of power-that it is our doctrine and South America resents. It considers it a reflection upon itself.
 I've never can bring our relations to the peoples of Latin America to the point of intimacy, confidence and re- spect," he said. until we realize we must find the right psychological ap- proach to Latin-America.
 ''The great barrier to American progress abroad is language. The peo- pie of the United States are not lin guists. Business has not time for the interpreter. Until the fallacy that
 English will carry you around the world is exploded. and until the men whom we send as representatives tc Latin America speak the tongue of the Spaniard or the Portuguese our prog ress will be halting and disappointing Better than smattering of botany biology, zoology, astronomy, tr1gonom- etry, plane, spherical or anything else the youth of America should be schooled in languages. Languages is the key which not only opens the rich est and the stores of great literatures
 but opens the doors of influential
 profitable human contacts with great
 peoples"
 The countries of South America, ht
 said are not what the generality ot
 people in the United States suppose
 them to be.
 They are quite as ready to giv'
 profitable instruction as they are II
 need of any and to give that instruc ) ton to us," he said. Instead of en wing us, I think it quite as true t say that there are many development } which they behold in this countr. which are unattractive and even re pellant and from which they hope t protect themselves"