Evening star., 1936-04-10
u. S. URGED TO Join
AMERICAN NATIONS
DEFENSE ALLIANCE
President Ubico of Guate-
maIa Offers Plan to
Roosevelt.
FOR CONSIDERATION
AT SUMMER PARLEY
Mutual Protection From Foreign
Aggression Through Monroe
Doctrine, Policy Aim.

tCopyright. 1885. by the Associated PressJ
A concert of American nations,
pledged to mutual assistance in case
of foreign aggression, has been pro-
posed to President Roosevelt by Gen.
Jorge Ubico, President of the Republic
of Guatemala.
The plan, presented for considera-
ton by the All-American Peace Con-
ference to be held this Summer at
Buenos Aires, in effect would call
upon all the nations of Central and
South America for their adherence to
the Monroe Doctrine.
To preserve peace among the Amer
ican nations themselves the Guate-
malan chief executive suggested
permanent court of American
justice, modelled generally after the
World Court at The Hague, with
jurisdiction to settle by arbitration
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Suggested Draft Covenant.
President Ubico's proposals were
submitted in the form of a suggested
draft covenant, included in his for
NAL acceptance of President Roose-
velt's invitation to the conference.
They first must be approved by the
conference Agenda Committee before
they can become a part of the pro-
gram.
He advocated a general treaty OF
solidarity and mutual cooperation"
1t would be an organic system of
inter-American legislation designed TO
maintain peace. promote commerce,
advance the development of commu-
nications and contribute to the cul-
tural and social welfare of the re-
spective countries.
Such a treaty would be based on
the doctrine that common continental
interests exist among the American
republics "and that those interests
require them to maintain a solidarity
Of principles fundamental to their
existence as members of the interna-
tional American community"
Assistance Clause.
The proposed mutual assistance
clause says:
Considering interventions or ag-
gressions by any foreign power against
any of them a danger to the integrity
and sovereignty of the nations Of this
continent, they obligate themselves to
place all their resources in defense Of
the rights of the injured party"
The succeeding article would pro-
claim that the mutual cooperation
herein pledged constitutes in itself
an association of the American re-
publics, with sufficient powers for the
maintenance inviolate of American
rights and interests"
Senor Don Adrian Recinos, Guate-
malan Minister to Washington, ex-
planned that acceptance of this pro-
vision by the other nations would con-
stitute multilateral adherence to the
Monroe Doctrine, now a fundamental
principle of United States foreign
policy.
BY proclaiming the doctrine, Presi-
dent Monroe delivered a warning to
powers outside the Western Hemis-
phere to keep hands off" the nations
in the American continent.
Feeling of Resentment.
Hitherto, some resentment has been
manifested by some Latin-American
governments because it was felt that
the United States had assumed
through the doctrine to act as the
guardian of the New World.
President Roosevelt's good neigh
Dor" policy is designed primarily to
remove any such feeling.
President Ubico's suggested draft
would authorize the creation Of a
permanent court of inter American
justice with jurisdiction to settle
whatever conflicts may arise among
the signatory republics" The Or
ganization procedure and rules to
govern the court would be formulated
by separate convention.