THE MONROE DOCTRINE AND SOUTH AMERICA.
The Publication by the State Department 'of an exhaustive restatement of the Monroe Doctrine provides further evidence of President Hoover's desire to propitiate the Latin-American countries: In arguing that the Monroe Doctrine should be applied by the United States only against Europe. and never against Latin-America, the document endorses the Latin- Amerfutii View. It restores the Monroe Doctrine to its pristine simplicity as a guarantee against European inter- ven lion and divests it of the so-called " Roosevelt Corollary " which, during the last quarter of a century, in the face of increasing oppoiition fioni the Latiri-Americah countries, has been deVeloped to justify intervention in Latin-America by the United States itself. Specifically, the document lays di3vrn that • such arrangements as the United States has made, for example, with Cuba, Santo Domingo, • Haiti, and Nicaragua are not within the doctrine as it was. announced by Monroe." Since that, precisely, is What ' the Latin- American countries have been contending, the restatement would seem to meet their objections. While a prefatory note states that the views expressed are " merely personal expressions " of the writer, J. Reuben Clark, a former- Under. Secretary of State, the fact that-they- are published -now in the form of a public document by the State Department obviously invests them with official importance.
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