CANADA'S DEFENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 196, 20 August 1938, Page 9

CANADA'S DEFENCE.

American Expansion of Monroe

Doctrine.

SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT.

NEW YORK, August 19,

| Commenting on President Roosevelt's i speech, in which he stated that the [ United States would assist Canada if attacked, the New York "Herald-Tri-bune" says: "There is not anything very surprising in Mr. Roosevelt's expansion of the Monroe Doctrine to include the defence of Canada. For many years nobody has imagined that the United States could remain indifferent to any threat against Canadian soil, and if the scope of the doctrine has been enlarged it is only in a technical sense.

"Yet the President has given calculated portentiousness to his announcement by timing it at a tense moment in international affairs. Apparently the President and the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, are trying to exert the influence of the United States in Europe without pledging its strength. Apparently they are trying to preserve peace by hinted threats of war without committing their own people.

"Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hull may feel that their utterances are safely within the limits of neutrality, but foreign commentators, who in London and Paris have received his speech with enthusiasm, and in Berlin and Rome with anger, are under no such fragile illusions." .