PAN-AMERICAN DEFENCE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25274, 28 August 1947, Page 7

PAN-AMERICAN DEFENCE

EXTENDING MONROE DOCTRINE

UNITED STATES PROPOSAL APPROVED (Rec. 8 p.m.) a RIO DE JANEIRO, August 26. A 14-nation sub-committee of the Pan-American Security Conference today approved the United States’ proposal for a vast enlargement of the application of the Monroe Doctrine. The new hemisphere defence zone would stretch from the Arctic to the Antarctic, and would include all the North and South American continents, Canada Alaska, Greenland, the Falkland Islands, the Orkney Islands, the South Polar region known as Antarctica, and the Sandwich and Georgia Islands zone. It would also include a 300-mile sea belt encircling both continents. The proposal provides for immediate joint military action in the event of an attack upon any portion of the area. If agreed to by the full 20-nation committee, the proposal will be included in the mutual defence treaty of the western hemisphere. Under the United States proposal, an armed attack by any State against an American nation would be considered an attack against all‘American States, and each American State would be obliged to aid in repelling such an attack.