Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-16
COOLIDGE is FRIENDLY
TO AMERICAN REPUBLICS
Expected to Continue Policy of Main
tanning and Improving Good Rela-
tons With Neighbors.

Gen. Plutarco Elias Gales, who was
received by the President in a most
friendly manner and who afterward
expressed the high esteem in which
he held the President.
Gen. Gales stated afterward that
he had been much impressed by hi.
meeting with President Coolidge, and
the latter also manifested his great
interest in Mexico and In the desire
to further the good relations which
have been established between the
two countries.
President Coolidge believes that
the various pan-American conferences
which are being held are Of great
benefit In helping to cement the
growing friendship among the ma
lions of the Western Hemisphere. He
has been appointing with great care
the delegates from the United States
10 these gatherings, seeing to It that
this country is represented by men
and women Of ability and Of the
highest type. He considers these in
ternational gatherings desirable from
every viewpoint and he believes that
they encourage cooperation between
the nations of North and South Amer
lea, whose aims are similar.
Stand on Monroe Doctrine.
The views of the present admins
tration on the Monroe doctrine, to
which 1t Is confidently believed Presi-
dent Coolidge will adhere through
out his term OF office, were clearly
| outlined by Secretary of State Hughes
in his address last year before the
American Bar Association, as we'll as
in his speech on the occasion of the
centenary of the Monroe doctrine. In
the former, Secretary Hughes en-
phasized the following points:
First: The Monroe doctrine is not
policy of aggression; 1t IS a policy
of self-defense;
Second: AS the policy embodied in
the Monroe doctrine is distinctively
the policy of the United States, the
| Government of the United States re-
serves to itself its definition, interpre-
tation and application;
| Third: The policy Of the Monroe
| doctrine does not infringe upon the
independence and sovereignty Of other
American states;
| Fourth: So far as the Caribbean
Sea is concerned 1t may be said that
if we had no Monroe doctrine, we
should have to create one:
| Fifth: 1t Is apparent that the Mon
roe doctrine does not stand in the
way of pan-American cooperation
rather 1t affords the necessary foun-
|
dependence and security Of American
states: and
| Sixth: The Monroe doctrine is not
an obstacle to wider international
cooperation. beyond the limits Of pam
American aims and interests, when
ever that cooperation is congenial to
American institutions.
Summary OF o. 8. Policy.
The policy Of the United States to.
ward Latin America. the policy which
the Coolidge administration Is expect
| ed to pursue and to strengthen can.
not be summed up better, 1t is be-
lieved. than in the words of Secretary
Hughes, who, in speaking as the of
fetal representative of the United
States at Rio de Janeiro on the oc-
casion of the centenary of Brazil's
independence. said:
| I'VE covet no territory; we seek nc
conquest; the liberty we cherish for
ourselves we desire for others, and we
assert no rights for ourselves that we
do not accord to others. We sincerely
desire to see throughout this hemi-
| sphere an abiding peace, the reign of
justice and the diffusion of the bless
| ings of benefcent cooperation 1t is
this desire which forms the basis of
the pan-American sentiment"
Again, at the opening here of the
conference on Central American at
| fairs, he said:
| THE Government of the United
/ States has no ambition to crafty at
your expense, no policy which runs
counter to your national aspirations
and no purpose save to promote the
interests of peace and to assist you
in such manner as you may welcome
to solve your problems to your own
proper advantage. The interest Of the
United States Is found in the peace
Of this hemisphere and in the con-
servation OF your interests"
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