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Show WOULD SUPPLEMENT 1I0EJ0CT1E Dr. L. S. Rowe of University of Pennsylvania Has Posi-, Posi-, tive Views. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. SL Tho people of the United States no longer reason about foreign affairs, but have permitted successive presidents and secretaries of state to formulate now principles of American foreign policy and place them under the cloak of the Monroe doctrine, Dr. L. S. Eowe said. Dr. Eowe is professor of political science at the university and was a delegate to tho Pan-American confer-once confer-once at Rio Janeiro in 1906. Ho made a plea for a constructive American foreign policy to supplement tho Monroe Mon-roe doctrine, saying: "The absence of a consistent, well-defined well-defined body of principles covering our foreign policy, combined with the fact that so many principles that have had nothing to do with tho Monroe doctrine' have been falsely designated as part of it, have served not only to arouse tho antagonism of European countries, but to develop a feeling of uncertainty and distrust in the countries coun-tries of Contra! and South America as to the ultimate purpose of the United States. "It is important to put an end to the situation. Either the term Monroe Mon-roe doctrine should bo abandoned or it should bo restricted to the two, and only two, simple nogative principles which represent its ongnal content. ' These, Dr. Rowo explained, were "the declaration against future colonization colo-nization of European countries of the American continent," and "a prohibition prohibi-tion of European interference with the political institutions or political destinies of American states." "European countries' he continued, "should be given a free hand in pursuing pursu-ing the romedios recognized bv international inter-national law for the redress of grievances, griev-ances, but such remedy should never bo permitted to go to tho point of a per manent occupation of American territory terri-tory or permanent control of the destinies desti-nies of an American state. ""Wo must definitely and forever abandon the idea of developing a 'Latin-American policy.' Nothing is more distasteful to the more advanced countries of South America than to hear tho president of the United States or tho sccrotary of state speak of a 'Latin-American policy.' " Dr. Rowo said that the rapid development devel-opment of tho leading countries of Latin-America, especially Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru, has prepared the way for the development of an American concert, fimilar in many respects re-spects to tho European concert. |