Detroit evening times., 1945-04-25
BY f. F. TOMPKINS

" agenda of the San Francisco Conference these:
lis Soviet Russia violating the Monroe Doctrine
and the act of Havana which was signed in Cuba IN
July, 1910, by the foreign ministers of twenty-one
American republics?
2-In particular, is Soviet Russia establishing in
Cuba at the very threshold of the United States
international citadel of Communist propaganda and in
trigue?
PanAmerican agreements by supporting the activities
of Soviet Russia and withholding from the other Pan
American governments information as to these actlv-
ties which Cuba is under moral and legal Obligations
to give?
THE Monroe Doctrine, promulgated in 1920 with
the advice and approval of Thomas Jefferson warned
all nations of the old world to keep out of the Western
Hemisphere.
1t said on behalf of the United States
I'VE should consider ANY ATTEMPT their part
to extend THEIR SYSTEM to ANY PORTION of this
hemisphere DANGEROUS TO OUR PEACE AND
SAFETY.
One hundred and twenty years later the American
republics adopted the following declaration at Havana
The doctrine of inter-American solidarity agreed
upon at the meetings at Lima and at Panama requires
the adoption of policy of VIGILANCE and DEFENSE
that SYSTEMS REGIMES in CONFLICT WITH
THEIR INSTITUTIONS shall not upset the peaceful life
of the American republics, THE NORMAL FUNCTION
ING OF THEIR INSTITUTIONS, or the RULE OF LAW
AND ORDER"
TNHE state department at Washington, then under
Secretary Hull, not only accepted the act of Havana,
but also listed the following among additional prof.
ects' that had been adopted by the American
republics:
"A resolution demanding adoption of legislative
measures by each republic adequate to suppress ANY
ACTIVITIES directed assisted or abetted by FOR
EIGN GOVERNMENTS OR FOREIGN GROUPS or
individuals, which TEND TO SUBNERT THE DOMES-
TIC INSTITUTIONS or TO FOMENT DISORDER IN
THEIR INTERNAL POLITICAL LIFE or TO MODIFY
by pressure, propaganda, threats IN ANY OTHER
MANNER the free and existing right of their peoples
to be governed by their existing democratic systems
and to EXCHANGE INFORMATION RELATING TO
SUCH ACTIVITIES.
A resolution setting up rules to prevent the
ing from republic to another of individuals groups
bent promoting civil strife internal disturbances
spreading subversve ideOOges and advocating effec-
tive prohibition of EVERY POLITICAL ACTIVITY by
FOREIGN INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATIONS, GROUPS
OR POLITICAL PARTIES, NO MATTER WHAT FORM
THEY MAY USE TO DISGUISE AND CLOAK SUCH
ACTIVITY"
TNHE whole Communist ideoogy, with its doctrine of
l. 1.-The dictatorship of the proletarat and obviously
ANY political activity" in the Western Hemisphere
directed aided by the Soviet government clearly falls
within the ban.
And it is widely known that Soviet Russia has been
continuously carrying such activities both North
and South America.
In fact since the Communist international dis
solved" in May 1943 this activity HAS BEEN TAKEN
OVER BY THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT ITSELF, act
ing through greatly expanded diplomatic and consular
staffs in the various countries
This actually makes the activity viola
tion of the Monroe Doctrine and the Pan American
declaration that before and Cuba is being made
the core of such activity.
A REVEALING article on the rapidly developing
"A Cuban menace appeared from Havana in the New
York Times on Sunday, April l.
Reporting that Soviet Russia is pouring a steady
stream of propaganda into the Latin American
tries, the Times said
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educated in communism and they are willing students.
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