Show BRITISH VIEW OF MONROE MONROE DOCTRINE PARTICULARLY INTERESTING DISCUSSION of A 11 Monroe doctrine is offered by Sir Alexander Edward EdwardY Mines Millar Y formerly legal member of ot the council in India His view naturally is from the tile English standpoint Taken by and large the paper is sane sene enough in lit that the writer concedes the right of the United States State to te promulgate the Monroe doctrine a right which he says ays it is not t to the interest t of or any other nation se seriously serIOusly seriously to contest Sir sti Alexander is net exactly fair however when wh n he says But there have come across acrO S the sea seas s suggestions suggestions tie that it Jt is J the th part of ot the United States when dis disputes disputes disputes have bave arisen arisen D between an American and a 8 European power to te assume the role of arbitrator to investigate and give judgment uninvited upon the merits of the quarrel sad and aa I to require the contending parties to acquiesce in the decision This Tats is Iii an assumption of ot a totally different na nature nature nature ture an assumption which although it may shelter itself under uDder the name of or the Monroe doctrine is entirely foreign to its Us principle Now such an assumption If seriously put pelt t into practice would w ne l end in war i If our recollection of the current newspaper reports of the Ute recent trouble between Venezuela and an certain cert n foreign powers pOwen including Great Britain is net not at fault the sug suggestion sug suggestion I that the tW United States Stat s act as arbitrator did not cone come from tW this side of the water The proposal was made by Emperor William Wllliam and Pr President Roosevelt did not give it a great deal of serious selous consideration It may be be said aid with altO alf aJ reasonable certainty that this country will never become Involved in a war with any European Eur power po er through insisting ina upon the right rt bt to arbitrate a 8 dispute between that power and a it South American republic Sir Edward EdWIU alludes somewhat 80 contemptuously to Pres President President President ident amazing message e to congress anent the Venezuelan boundary dispute and to Secretary hectoring dispatch di He says that only the patience and t of ota a great nation Dation Great Britain conscious ious of oC its I I own o strength and with a fixed determination not to take needless offense enabled Great Britain Brita n to pass lightly over those tho e matters But it is Sir Edwards unqualified general endorsement of the doctrine that is most interesting He says i It is it well ell to recognize unreservedly that the tbs operation op ration of the doctrine hr In question as explained not by the vapor fo ings of newspaper writers in the one country or by the of amateur critics in the other but by the de deliberate liberate utterances of ot responsible authority is a II re oat for peace and progress pr ess if it for tor no reason than l an because it tends to preserve a valuable heritage against t the time to come from the strivings of ambition and aDd the intrigues of diplomacy |