Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
ENJOYS PAY HONOR
At MONROE SHRINE.
Castle Paper Flags Fright"
of Intervention of U. S.
Under Doctrine.
BY THOMAS n. HENRY,
Stan Correspondent Of The star.

Staf Correspondent OF The star.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. July
A.-There was a pilgrimage OF nations
today to a low-roofed farm house in
the Virginia mountains.
Representatives Of score OF Ameri-
san and European countries paid tribute
this afternoon to the memory Of Pfesi-
dent James Monroe in the box -hedged
garden at Ashlawn, 5 miles into the
hills from the old State university, on
the Tooth anniversary Of his death.
Here the author Of the Monroe doc
NEane lived for IS years before he be-
came the fifth President of the United
States Here, with the inspiration of
his closest neighbor, 2 miles up the
evolved the philosophy of statecraft
which was to make him an immortal
ngure in the history of relations among
nations.
Four Leaders Lived Nearby.
The ENJOYS of the nations came to-
dRy-a sober. gray-day on oak-forested
slopes Of the ragged mountains-tO the
real cradle Of American ideals, where
the concepts of freedom, justice and
liberty were born and nursed in the
minds Of philosophers before they were
introduced to the world in the smoke
Of revolutionary battles and the f1nesse
Of diplomacy.
1t was a unique society of the gentle
man farmers and scholars who dwelt
here back In the late eighteenth cen
fury. There was Jefferson at Month
cello. There was Monroe at Ashlawn.
Madison and John Marshall were occa-
0ional residents.
Something of genius of the noun
tainS entered their thinking. Their
minds drew from the environment ele-
nients Of the ma jesty Of eternal hills
around them of the vastness of the
prospect Of the countryside below. with
its blanket of blue-gray haze tossing
In the wind, which Jefferson called his
'tsea."
Ashlawn Is Shrine Now.
20 It was to classic land that the
diplomats came. Monticello long since
has been a shrine, The humber Ash
lawn, until a year ago, was forgotten
and was rescued as 1t was falling into
decay. 1t had been a farmhouse and
Q place for Summer boarders. Few
remembered its association with Monroe
Now 1t is being restored to its orig
NAL state and as many as possible OF
the personal possessions of Monroe and
his family are being installed. There
are still the box hedges he planted
when he tried to settle down to the life
Of country gentleman after the rev.
clution.
The guests today fingered in the
shade of the lofty Norwegian pine
which he brought from Europe and
planted with his own hands. Inside
the house they chuckled at the quaint
series of moral engravings which he
the progress OF the good girl" to the
marriage altar with her master and
the decline Of the bad girl to ar
unhonored grave.
Many Diplomats Attend.
The following members of the Wash
ington diplomatic corps represented
their nations at the ceremonies today:
Senior DR.. Don Adrian RecinoS, Min
lister Of Guatemala; Senior DR.. Juan
B. Sacasa, Minister of Nicaragua; Dr.
Leonide Pitamic, Minister of Jugo-
slavia Senior DR. Homero Viteri La
frente. Minister of Ecuador: Mr.. Dan
ties Bellegarde. Minister of Haiti: Senior
DR.. Don Fabio Lozano, Minister of
Colombia; Senior DR.. Don Jose T. Ba-
ron, charge d'affaires of Cuba; Mr.
Wladyslaw Sokolowski, counselor of the
Polish embassy: Senior DR.. Don Pablo
Argentine embassy; Senior Don Bahlo
M. Ynsfran, charge d'affaires of Para
quay; Mr.. Augusta Mendes Leal, first
secretary and charge d'affaires of Por-
tugal; Senior Don Guillermo e. Gonzale,
commercial counselor and charge DAFT
flares of Costa Rica; Senior Don Pablo
Herrera de Huerta, counselor and
charge d'affaires of the Mexian en-
bassy: M Pierre Henry de la Blan-
chetai. first secretary of the French en-
baSsy; Herr Ernst Meyer, first secre-
try of the German embassy; Mr.. Vic
tor Podoski first secretary of the Polish
embassy Mr.. Paule Coelhe de Almeida,
Arst secretary of the Brazilian en-
bassy: M. Raymond Bousquet, second
secretary Of the French embassy; Mr..
Roger Makins, third secretary of the
British embassy: Mr.. Pierre de Sails,
attache of the legation of Switzer-
land, and Senior Don Juan Lozane,
son of the Minister of Colombia.
The diplomats reached Charlottes-
Vile by special train at noon and were
met by q welcoming committee headed
by Dean Charles g. Maphis of the
University Of Virginia. Then they pro-
cseded to the University. where the life
and work of Monroe were lauded and
the present status of the Monroe Doc
trine interpreted in an address writ
ten by w. r. Castle, jr., Undersecre-
tary of State, and read in his absence
At 2 pm. they arrived at Ashlawn
where they were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs Jay w. Johns. present owners
Of the estate, who kept the old house
from falling to pieces.
Historic Desk Installed,
This was the one place, they were
told, where Monroe was really happy,
and 1t was heart-bfeaking when f1nan-
cial difficulties after he retired from
the White House forced him to sell
the home which he had built, whose
lew-arched hall framed a vista of
Monticello on the nearby mountain
side.
From Ashlavn the party proceeded
10 the home of Jefferson. Here, with
q brief ceremony, was installed as
permanent exhibit the desk on which
was signed the treaty of peace with
Mexico, the quill pen with which 1t
was signed and the draft of letter
written by James Buchanan, then Sec
rotary of State, to Nicholas B. Trist.
then special agent for the United
States, explaining the conditions under
which the treaty was signed. Trist
was the husband of Jeffersen's grand
daughter
The diplomatic party then returned
to Washington but at the university
the exercises IN honor of Monroe were
continued in the evening with an ad
dress by DR.. William u. Dodd, profess
sor of American history ct University
Of Chicago, on "James Monroe and
National Politics Hundred Years Ago"
Castle Clarifies Doctrine.
Present-day criticisms Of the Monroe
doctrine. Mr.. Castle wrote IN his ad-
dress, which was read by James
Murdoch, an assistant to the solicitor
of the State Department, are almost
entirely due to Misunderstanding OF It's
purposes and misunderstanding of its
meaning. The fact that the doctrine Is
unilateral, he said seems to have caused