Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-04
HUNDRETH ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATED OF MONROE
DOCTRINE PRONUNCIATION

right Of every nation to safeguard
its interests. Why should the Unit
ed States claim it as private ma
tional policy?' The more we explain
and disclaim, the more these other
American nations suspect our Ill
terror motives or accuse us of AFRO
gant bad manners.
Distrust Growing
"There is no use denying the fact
that the recent pan-American con-
ference in Santiago served in a
marked way to increase distrust and
hostility because of this insistence
on the part of the United States
that it could not permit the fOrmu'
lation of the Monroe Doctrine as
q pan-American doctrine to which
all of these nations could cheerfully
subscribe on a basis of mutual
equality and friendly confidence.
Making due allowance for the nat
ural courtesy and forbearance Of
Latin.Americans in their official
comments on this subject, W eshould
recognize that they cannot under
stand and that they keenly resent
this unyielding, defiant attitude of
the United States. The results of
this policy have been lamentatYe.
The possibility of a genuine under
standing and sympathy with these
nations is becoming increasingly
difficult"
Stating that the relations Of
the United States with the other ma
tons Of this hemisphere are not
regulated by the Monroe Doctrine, 1"
or, "a
la1ions certainly are affected by
our Interpretation of the doctrine, as
in the case OF Santo Domingo or
Mexico. But the policy, for example,
Of Withholding recognition of new
governments for diplomatic pur-
poses has no proper relation to the
Monroe Doctrine. 1t is rather a most
unfortunate instance Of the often
sivenesses of American policy to the
peoples Of the other American ma
tiOls, and it has been productive of
unhappy results.
Fresh Spirit Needed
1.-THE truth is that. in spite Of obvi-
GUS difficulties of a diplomatic ma
tu~e for which the United States is
not entirely responsible, its relations
with these countries need a fresh
orientation and an invigorating
spirit of broad, generous statesman
ship. The menace of Europe in at
tempting to draw them into its
political system and of Vitiating the
Monroe Doctrine, if not the con-
slant necessity of perfecting our re-
lations with all our near neighbOrs,
requires a true pan-American pol
icy
Earlier in his address, touching on
the relation of the Monroe Doctrine
to European nations, Professor
Brown said that THE bloc Of Latin
American nations represented in the
League of Nations is so strong that
the practice of the European ma
tions has been to bid for it's vote
and to draw these countries Of the
new world more Spd more into the
diplomats game of Europe. Two
years in succession the great pow
ers have seen fit to favor the choice
of representatives from this hemi-
sphere to preside over the assembly
Of the league. And the suggestion
has been seriously made that a spe.
cial bureau of the league should be
organized to deal with Pan-Ameri'
CAN affairs.
The spectacle of a Europe still
under the sway of the vicious prin'
ciple of balance Of power endeavor.
ing to intrude on the affairs Of the
American continents is one that
should awaken deep regret and re.
sentiment"