Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11
CONTEMPLATING OF MONROE
DOCTRINE URGED AT INSTITUTE
Dr.. James B. Scott Declares
U. S. Policy HumiIiates
Other Republics.
Suggest Common Pledge OF
All Americas as Sub
Stitute.
By a STAFF Correspondent of The star.

By STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. August
ia multi-lateral Monroe Doctrine
was proposed by DR.. James Brown
Scott of the Carnegie Foundation for
International Peace, speaking before the
Institute of Public Affairs here today.
He suggested that each nation of the
Western Hemisphere make common
declaration of policy to stand against
European control in the affairs of any
one of them rather than remain in the
somewhat humiliating position in which
this is a Self-aSsumed function OF the
United States alone
Thus Peru or Columbia would be
pledged to resist European invasion of
the United States, for example. They
would be equal and independent part
nerS in the Western Hemisphere. AS it
stands now, the United States has taken
upon itself to be their guardian without
asking what they think about it.
Says Roosevelt Stirred Resentments.
The greater part of the resentments
stirred up against the Monroe Doctrine,
Dr. Scott pointed out, have been due
not so much to the actual words of
James Monroe, but to the interpreta-
ton, whose terms are ambiguous, con-
tanned in the message to Congress of
President Roosevelt December 6, 1904,
which made the United States an
international police power in fragrant
cases of wrong doing or impotence"
among the New World nations. This
declaration of policy, which goes be-
yond anything actually said by Monroe,
he explained, has been the basis of
American invasions of Latin American
countries and the reason for charges
of American imperialism.
"The Monroe Doctrine" he said, twas
not rule of law. 1t was declaration
of policy made by the United States in
its own behalf, the application of which,
fortunately, has been not only in the
special interest of the United States but
in the general interest of the Amer
leans. 1t is, at best, one-sided and
special statement of the general right
of self-defense."
But, he said, the language of the
Roosevelt message was definitely that
of superior to an inferior" 1T is a
condition" he continued, that the 13
American Colonies would not have
accepted. No nation, it is believed, has
hitherto, without compulsion, subjected
the propriety of its domestic activities
to an exterior and superior WILL
Debts have been paid throughout
the centuries without acquisition of
territory outright or temporarily and
without taking possession of customs
houses. Apparently, President Roosevelt
assumed an application of the Monroe
Doctrine from which to deduce a right
that thereupon becomes a duty of the
United States. 1t would seem that the
Government of the United States here
creates responsibilities, as we'll as i'm
poses duties, by doctrine which is
availed of in its own interests"
The United States, he insisted, always
lays itself open to the charge of doing
in its own interests in Latin America
what it forbids European countries from
doing in their interests.
Doctrine of Badge of Humiliation"
'While the Monroe Doctrine" he said
"iS source of pride to Americans of
the north it is badge of humiliation
to our southern friends This is be-
cause the doctrine is of the United
States and not of the American Re-
publics, in the sense that it is pro-
claimed by the United States, inter-
preted by the United States and applied
by the United States in its own in
terests. however much it may affect