Evening star., 1941-06-24
American History Held
Supporting Roosevelt
Parallel Between His Course
And Thut of Monroe
Is Cited
From the Chicago Daily Times.

Is Cited
From the Chicago Daily Times
The responsibility is President Roose-
velt's but the pattern is President Mon
roe's. And the pattern has been Amer
icas for 118 years.
The theme of the international drama
is the same. The time is 194l instead
of 1923. There are new actors. The
stage is the same-the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1923 the stage was 26 days wide-it
took the fastest vessel that long to cross
the ocean. Today the same watery stage
is only seven hours wide-fying time for
planes carrying bombs or troops from
the Cape Verde Islands to Brazil.
In this serious business of an un-
limited national emergency, Americans
should know themselves. And in know
ing themselves they should learn the role
in the great drama of American freedom
played by the Virginian, James Monroe,
Senator, Washington's Minister to
France, Governor of his State, Jeffer-
sons envoy extraordinary to France,
Madison's Secretary of State and then
President from 1917 to 1926 1t was this
Monroe, real American, who fashioned
the fabric of President Roosevelt's recent
fireside chat. 1t was Monroe who set
the precedent for proclamation of a ma
tional emergency by the President rather
than by Congress
Simply stated, the fireside chat was an
old and famous American doctrine
brought up to date. 1t was the Monroe
Doctrine, taken out of its sailing-vessel-
horse -and-buggy antiquity and adjusted
to the modern airplane.
In Monroe's time, Austria, Russia,
Prussia and France decided to put an
end to the system of representative gov
eminent" Today Hitler has made the
same decision. Monroe stopped Austria,
Russia, Prussia and France. Roosevelt is
following in his footsteps to stop Hitler.
There are three parts of the Monroe
Doctrine:
Cd President Monroe said: e. The
American continents, by the free and
independent condition which they have
assumed and maintained, are henceforth
not to be considered as subjects for fu-
ture colonization by any European
powers"
That has been American policy ever
since. In his proclamation of the un-
limited national emergency, President
Roosevelt restated the doctrine. He has
taken steps to prevent, in his own words,
ANY attempt at hostile encirclement of
this hemisphere, or the establishment OF
any hopes for aggression against it, as
we'll as to repel the threat of predatory
incursion by foreign agents into our
territory and society"
(2) President Monroe said in the wars
of the European powers in matters re-
lating to themselves we have never taken
any part, nor does it comport with our
policy so to do. 1t is only when our
rights are invaded or seriously menaced
that we resent injuries or make prepara-
tions for our defense"
The paragraph above quotes the Mon
roe Doctrine on our attitude in European
wars. AS long as European powers war
about matters relating to themselves"
we take no part. But when European
powers at war indulge in actions that
relate not alone to themselves but in
actions that invade or seriously menace
our rights, then I'VE resent injuries or
make preparations for our defense"
Hitler's words and actions land the
words and actions of his agents in this
country prove that he aims to be master
of this hemisphere The official text of
his compact with Italy and Japan reads
that each nation is to be given its own
proper place in the world dominated by
Hitler-if the Axis wins. And nations
in this hemisphere are invited to join up.
80 The Monroe Doctrine says: With
the movements in this (the Western)
Immediately connected. We should
consider any attempt on their part (for-
eign nations) to extend their system to
any portion of this hemisphere as dam
gerous to our peace and safety. we
could not view any interposition for the
pOSC Ol OppACCSAAA6 baAShA NO~N~-
American governments), or controlling In
any manner their destiny, by any Euro
pean power in any other light than as
a manifestation of an unfriendly dispo-
sition toward the United States"
If Hitler shifts war bases between Ger
many and South America. that would be
an "interposition." In his f1reside talk
President Roosevelt said:
THE war is approaching to the brink
of the Western Hemisphere itself. 1t is
coming very close to home. Control or
occupation by Nazi forces of any of the
islands of the Atlantic would jeopardlze
the immediate safety of portions OF
North and South America, and OF the
island possessions of the United States
and of the ultimate safety OF the CONT
mental United States itself"
No American needs to be told that
when Hitler takes country or an island
he moves on as soon as possible to an
other country. The American people,
their President, and all the nations IN
this hemisphere, therefore, are JUSTIFIED
in their stand that Hitler attempt to
seize by force any land or base from
which he might attempt the penetration
of any South American country would be
an attempt on his part to extend his
system to this hemisphere. That's what
the President has said. That's what
American history has told him he should
say-American history since 1928.
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