Evening star., 1933-04-17
NEW DEAL SEEN
FOR LATIN AMERICA
RooseveIt's Attitude on Mon
roe Doctrine Cheers South
ern Republics.
by FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Now the New Deal has gone south,
across the Rio Grande and the ISthmuS
of Panama, and spread its wings until
It embraces ali Of Latin America. Pres
ident RooSevelt'S Pan-American day
address is the index OF the altered policy
which is henceforward to govern the
relations between the United States and
the 20 sister American republics. They,
at least as represented by their re-
spective spokesmen in Washington. SO
interpret the Presidents maiden utter
ance on the affairs of the Western
Hemisphere His description OF the
dogma laid down by James Monroe IN
1923 as this PAN American doctrine OF
continental self-defenSe" causes endless
satisfaction in the Latin American
world.
It seems to divest "Monroeism" of the
exclusively unilateral aspect which the
doctrine hitherto has borne. Inc
United States long ago ceased to re-
pard the keystone of its foreign policy
arch in that light but many Latlns 1elt
that we took that view. Franknn u.
Roosevelt, at a blow has gone far TO-
ward removing that misapprehenslon
and turning the Monroe Doctrine INTO
a multilateral policy. partnership
among all the Americas. instead OF
thing in which the Colossus OF the
NOIIn liib~ANceNN'
Hurt by High Tariffs.
The feature of the Presidents pam
American statement which pleaseS Ille
Latins the most is his remonstrance
against such trade barriers as inter
American tariffs, which IMPEDE the
natural flow of commodities between
North and South America. AS long as
the United States 9dhered to What Sec
lie .snnnnnn1lp nQtl0n4l-
ism" the sister republics thought our
protestations Of affection for them were
more or less artificial. Argentina saw
her once prosperous trade with the
United States in tlaXSeed, caSeln ana
meat prCducts almost wrecked by the
Hawley- -Smoot law Chile and Peru
found their old copper market IN TINS
country dealt nearly death oloW Dy
the same legislation. CuDa mas never
recovered from the damage the existing
American tariff act did to her sugar
and vegetable exports Other Latln
countries have had their speclaltles
similarly affected, and piled up protests
at the State Department, which even
the unceasing efforts of DR.. Leo S. Rowe.
Uncle Sans minister of good Will 1or
Latin America, were incapable OF over
coming. President RooSevelt'S assur-
ances that there is to be squarer deal
IN UI1e ItdlIll Va pan ANAAA >S---
cial interchange is the best news wash
ington could send South
For years the 20 other American re-
publics have exhibited progressively less
enthusiasm for the Monroe Doctrine.
Long ago they ceased to regard them
selves as being in any danger from
colonization" by European powers. to
prevent which was the fundamental
motive of the doctrine. If there was
ha mfr nuprnpnt their
territory or their rights from any quar-
ter, that quarter, many Latins had per
Suaded themselves, was the United
States. The Monroe Doctrine came to
be widely considered as cloak for
North American imperialism" Our
successive occupations OF the Domlnl-
can Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua with
Marines strengthened that convicuon
Now that our Marines policy" has been
abolished and Leatherneck forces with
drawn from the Caribbean and Central
American area a new frame of mind
prevails. Charges of imperialism" have
grown perceptibly less vehement, too,
since Congress voted to remove the
Stars and Stripes from the Philippines.
With President RoOSeveltS pledge OF
better tariff treatment for Latin Ameri-
can products and his definition of the
Monroe Doctrine as something OF pam
America, by pan-America and for pam
America, the rest of the Western Hem
isphere is given an entirely different
slant on Uncle Sans purposes.
Helps Feeling in South.
The Monroe Doctrine lost Latin
American prestige at three different
stages during the past 30-odd years.
Secretary of State Richard Olney gave
it severe jolt in 1896. at the time OF
the Anelo-American controversy over
Venezuela. when he declared that 1.-The
will of the United States is supreme in
all matters on the American conti-
nent" and :in all those questions to
which this country lent its interposi-
ton
Nine or ten years later. President
Theodore Roosevelt stirred up another
Latin American hornets nest with his
dictum that under the Monroe Doctrine
"a certain international police power"
dev6lved upon the United States. m