Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-14
MEXICO DRAFTS 9.POINT
DECLARATION OF POLICY
Ceniceros Formula Cited as New Rea
son for All Latins to Seek Leader
ship i'm His Government.

OF the pdclnSJlc attempts naue W
date: an all-inclusive program. co-or-
dinating and perfecting the action of
the different agencies which had in
the past proved insufficient to pre-
serve international peace.
Although, for reasons easy to I'M
derstand by any one familiar with
so-called Pan-American conferences,
the Montevideo parley avoided dis
cuSsion of the Mexican peace code,
no scheme for the organization of
peace has yet been drawn which sur
passes it in conference or in practical
possibilities.
On the eve of the Montevideo con-
ference, Mexico took another step for
ward in the field of foreign affairs.
Foreign Minister Puig Casauranc sug-
gested, in a memorandum to Ambas-
sador Daniels of the United States,
an "actualization" Of the Monroe
Doctrine which would have converted
the old-fashioned and discredited for
mula of 1923 into continental doc
trine of self-defense, at the same time
forbidding its further use as a cloak
for Intervention.
Nine Point Policy Drafted.
To these repeated expressions of
a progressive and liberal foreign pol
icy which have come lately from
Mexico, now we must add the nine
point declaration of policies formu-
lated last week by Senior Jose Angel
Ceniceros, acting foreign minister in
the present Mexican government. The
student of inter- American affairs will
easily recognize behind each of these
points some situation in the past
which it is intended tc avoid. and in
all nine of them he will find a pro-
gram comprehensive and essential to
the success of any Pan-American
scheme. The nine points may be sum-
married. thus:
/. International solidarity and
equality.
2. Mutual respect for one another'S
sovereignty and absolute elimination
of wars of conquest, or of pressure to
acquire territorial advantages.
3. Suppression of all armed, diplo-
matte, commercial or judicial action
for collection of international debts.
4. Arbitration of international con-
ficts.
5. No intervention in internal af-
fairs by any country and suppression
of the system of prior recognition of
governments.
6. Effective rapprochement founded
in realities and public treaties pub
icly arrived at.
Z. Suppression of purely juridical
and traditional formulas and flctions
and substitution for them of social
and political living realities Monroe
Doctrine).
8. Equality of foreigners with re-
spect to damage produced by civil
wars, considering indemni1cation as
a voluntary act not constituting prec-
edent.
9. Economic cooperation in inter-
national problems, principally labor
tariffs and immigration.
It is hard to conceive of any of the
errors and abuses which have, in the
past, marred the relations of the
United States with Latin America,
and among the Latin American coun-
tries themselves. if the principles now
outlined as the bases of Mexico's for
eign policy had been individually and
collectively accepted then. Obviously
the best way to insure that the next
few decades of international relations
in the Western Hemisphere be more
successful than the past four or five
is to look for general adoption Of
the Mexican nine points.
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