The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-07-26
The Monroe
Doctrine Violated
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The first incident came in 1874,
when Great Britain announced a
protectorate over the Mosquito
Coast" of Nicaragua. After long
dispute, the claim was withdrawn
in 1860.
A different kind of problem
arose in 1861 when a president of
t he Dominican Republic invited
Spain to resume control of that
country. Spain maintained a mea-
sure of control there until 1865,
but as soon as the end of the Civ
il War left the hands of America
free, Spain got Out-in a hurry.
The most drastic infringement
of the Monroe Doctrine came in
1863 when the French set up a
"puppet empire" in Mexico under
Macmillan. But the French with
drew when the Civil War ended,
and Macmillan was swiftly exc
cuted.
In none of these categOrieS,
however, falls the aggression that
has now begun, and that is being
pushed by bribery and blackmail
at which the Nazis are so adept.
In the matter of the French
possessions in the Wetern Hemis-
phere, Germany now occupies the
position of a holding company"
The ostensible ruler of French
Guiana, and Martinique, is still
France. It is as if a private power
company owns the electric light
plant in your home town, but this
company itself is owned by an
other. If the Germans want it
done, the Fascist-controlled pre-
sent government of France will
build bases on these possessions.
Will that be a violation of the
Monroe Doctrine?
But the Spearhead of the Ger
man attack Is aimed at Uruguay,
where a third of the population is
of Italian blood, and there are
some 10000 Germans, where the
diplomatic corps actively engages
in spreading Nazi doctrines (aided
by the interned crew of the Graf
Spee) and which is within easy
reach of the tremendous German
population of southern Brazil,
with it's private army.
Uruguay Is at once the small
lest, most sparsely populated, and
at the same time one of the most
strategically located of the South
American nations. The mouth of
the River Plata is a wide wedge
driven between the Argentine and
the nations to the north. German
control of Uruguay would be a
spike driven n to the heart OF
South America.
If the NaZiS win out in Uru-
quay, control of that nation will
pass in subtle fashion to Europe.
1t is true no German will be at
the head of the government. But
the ruler will become puppet with
no more voice in government that
Macmillan had in Mexico. And
from Uruguay, the Nazis plan to
expand both nOrthward, to Bra
zil, and southwark, to the Argen-
tine, according to information that
has reached this Government. If
that is a violation of the Monroe
Doctrine, it is a violation that has
already begun.
The effect upon the Jewish pop
ulations of South America of these
Nazi encroachments has already
been felt. In practically every
South American nation, the cam
paign of hatred has brought new
regulations designed to curb Jew
ish immigration.
The Monroe Doctrine is not be-
ing directly attacked-it is be-
ing eaten away.
One day we may awake to dis
cover that there have been no
transfers of territory in South
America, but that the whole con-
tinent has fallen into Nazi hands.
After that it will be too late. It
will be the last phase of the isol-