Evening star., 1930-06-26
CHANGE IN MONROE
DOCTRINE is READY
u. S. About to Announce New
Policy DisCIaiming Interven-
ton in Local Matters.
BIZ FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.


Domestic political preoccupations like
the tariff, the naval treaty. veterans
legislation and other congressional and
administration ills have caused sight to
be lost of the new Monroe Doctrine :"
about to be formally proclaimed The
proclamation will take the form pf lorg
prepared identic state Department
notes to Latin American governments
Its basic content and purpose is dis
claim, on the part of the United States,
the right to intervene in the purely To-
cal affairs of the sister republics OF
Central and South America. In a nut
shell, the new" Monroeism is depicted
TO Latin American governments as a
doctrine which Uncle Sam aims at Eu
rope and not at the countries of the
Western Hemisphere. q
Although this far-reaching declara-
ton of present-day American policy
goes forth under the imprimatur OF
the Hoover administration, 1t originat-
ed with the Coolidge administration.
Frank B. Kellogg, who was Secretary
Of State until March 1929, directly
instigated IL. 1t was put into textual
form by j. Reuben Clark, Kellogg's
Undersecretary of State, and designed
for the enlightenment of the foreign
relations committee of the Senate. The
Kellogg Clark presentation was part
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case for the anti-war pact bearing his
name.
Kellogg transmitted the notes con-
tanning the new" doctrine to Latin
American governments just before he
left the State Department a year ago.
But our envoys at the respective Cen
trail and South American capitals were
directed to withhold the submission of
the notes until further orders. Secre-
tary Stimson is about to instruct their
delivery.
AS far as its exact purport has be-
come known in washington, the Kel-
logg Clark reading of the Monroe doc
trlne differs sharply from the celebrated
Roosevelt corollary." In 1904 IT. r"
sent a message to Congress which, in
effect, argued the right of the United
States to intervene in Latin countries
virtually whenever the Washington gov
ernment deemed intervention justified.
All subsequent "invasionS" of Cuba,
Mexico, Haiti, Nicaragua and other
Latin lands have been more or less
justified on the basis Of the Roosevelt
corollary Our present elucids ton of
the rights MonroeiSm confers on US
breaks with that conception. 1t also
seems to turn down the theory enunei-
ated by President Coolidge, in the midst
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''person" of every American citizen in
Latin America and the interests Of that
perSons-a view which caused consider
able excitement and perturbation on
both sides of the Isthr.us of Panama.
Assurances Given by Hoover.
President Hoover is understood to
have informed all the Latina American
statesmen he encountered during his
pre-inaugural goodwill tour that "a
new DEAF in the United States Latin
American program would be ushered in
with his administration. Assurances on
this score were also given, this writer
learns, when the presidents-elect of
Mexico. Colombia and Brazil in turn
come to Washington. The policy of
rushing Marines to danger points in
the other Americas has never appealed
to Hoover. In his Armistice day ad-
dress In 1929, the President Signalled
that use of the devil dogs" for debt
collecting missions and the like would
vanish, as far as the Hoover admins
tration could operate to that end.
In substance, the memorandum pre-