Monroe Doctrine

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 1 September 1923, Page 3

Monroe Doctrine

MR HUGHES’S DEFINITION. POLICY OF SELF DEFENCE. Press Association— Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. New York, August 30. Mr 0. E. Hughes (Secretary of gjate), addressing the American Bar /Association at Minneapolis, defined the Monroe Doctrine, and generally reviewed the situation of the Amer ican possessions in the Caribbean Sea. Ho safd, concerning tho Dqctrinc. that it was not a policy of aggression, but one of self-defence. The Government of the United States reserved to itself the Doctrine’s definition, in terpretation and application. Touching upon the situation in; Europe,; Mr Hughes said; “Our attitude is one of independence, not isolation. Our people are still intent upon abstaining from participation in the political strife in. Europe. They are not disposed to commit this Government in advance to use its power in unknown contingencies.”