Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-31

Shall the Monroe Doctrine become
| the foundation stone upon which a
| pan-American alliance will be estab-
| liShed? With such an alliance, all
American countries would announce
| to the world that they stand back of
| the doctrine which, for more than q
century, has been supported only by
! the United States. Would such an al
| lance and characterization of the
Monroe doctrine now add to it's force
| or to the power of the United States
| to enforce it? Some one has said:
| I'VE do not discuss the Monroe Doc
trine; we enforce it,"
X X X X
| According to DIR. Leo S. Rowe, the
/ director of the Pan-American Union,
| in his discussion last week of the doc
! trine at the round table of the VIII
| liamsburg political conference, most
| of the objections advanced in Latin
! American countries are based upon q
misconception of what is the doctrine
| and what it does not cover.
! He said: 1.-THE American policies
| which have been made to masquerade
under the name of the Monroe Doe
| trine are the chief basis for the mis-
! givings regarding the original doc
i
lea. The United States can
not restrict it's entire foreign policies
! to the Monroe Doctrine, and the new
| American principles must find their
| justification, not in the Monroe Doe
| trine. but in the new world conditions
| that have developed in recent years.
1.-THE Monroe Doctrine" added Dr.
Rowe, contains two basic principles
which are as valid today as at the
| time of their pronunciation in 1873.
| These principles are: First, declara-
! ton against further European colom-
cation on the American continents:
and, secondly, a declaration that the
states of these continents are not to
be controlled in their destinies nor
| are their political institutions to be
interfered with by any European
| power"
From time to time, Latin American
countries have expressed resentment
at what they jealousy regarded as an
| assumption by the more powerful
| United States of it's oyerlordship, linn
iting their independence and reflect
| ing upon their ability to protect them
selves. They have expressed fear that
| the aggressive big brother of the
north had an Interior motive in warn
| ing off European aggression, In or
der to clear the field for United States
aggression, to end in some sort OF pro
tectorate. They refused to credit the
| Yankees with altruism, and in fact
| the Monroe Doctrine, as interpreted by
our own leaders, is not merely al
| truistic, but, though internatlonal IN
it's declaration of warning to Euro
pean aggression. it is primarily ma
| tional in protecting the safety. not OF
Latin America, but, first, of the
! United States. 1t assures the indie
pendence Of Central and South Ameri-
| can countries against European ag-
| gression. because such aggression
would ultimately involve European
, powers in further aggression. which
| would be sure to lead to war with the
| United States. Just as our motives in
entering the World War were the
forehanded protection of America
against a probably victorious Ger
many, which would have led to inva-
sion of America, as openly avOWed by
the Kaiser, so, at the time just proceed
| ing the famous Monroe declaration, all
| the Spanish colonies on continental
America had revolted and the Holy
Alliance in Europe was formed for
| the purpose of counter attacks upon
!
to their European tyrants. and with
such restoration under military pow
err our own independence for which
we had twice fought bloody wars
would have been again placed in
! Jeopardy. Hence our announcement
of defiance was a measure of self
| protection.
| Some historians have ascribed the
| initiation of the Monroe Doctrine to
Lord Canning. British foreign secre-
tary, who was Jealous of the Holy
Alliance of Spain, France and Aus
tria, fearful that II the Holy Alliance
regained the American colonies some
/ would be given to enhance the com
mercial power of France, with which
England was chronically at odds. Can
ming did propose an Anglo-American
Alliance to oppose the Holy Alliance,
but it was declined by President Mon
roe, under the advice of his Secretary
of State, John Quincy Adams, and. in
stead of the Anglo-American Alliance,
"a policy of absolutely independent
american oefiafice of all Europe was
adopted-ths NOproe Ds1trine. =.