REVOLUTION AND INTERVENTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 94, 22 April 1931, Page 6

REVOLUTION AND INTERVENTION.

A revolution has broken out in Honduras, one of the Central American States, and United States cruisers are hurrying to rescue their "nationals," who are reported to be in serious danger. Last week a similar situation arose in Nicaragua, where the chaos produced by the great earthquake had given the "local banditry an excuse and a chance for slaughter and pillage. There, however, the situation was complicated by a warning from Britain that unless British subjects are adequately protected a British cruiser may be sent to their assistance. To patriotic Americans this sebms to foreshadow an infringement of the sanctity of the Monroe Doctrine, and unless Britain mingles tact with firmness a dangerous international complication may easily ensue. For the Americans are firmly resolved not to loosen their hold on Central America, and they are not at all likely, on any pretext, to permit freedom of action to Britain in a sphere of influence that they have come to regard : as peculiarly their own. >-.