Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-06-24 | Page 2 | Interpretation of Doctrine to Get New Basis

bleed oa Monroe doctrine review by J. Reuben Clark, former undersecretary under-secretary of state., and soujht to dissociate dis-sociate the doctrine from an accumulation ac-cumulation of what International lawyera considered to bo misinterpretations. misinter-pretations. Among these is the so-called so-called -Roosevelt corollary- of 1104. President Itoosevett's message to congress that year based our entire en-tire policy toward central American and Caribbean republic on the Monroe Mon-roe doctrine. Under this interpretation interpre-tation the American intervention In Nicaragua in IHl'S could be attributed attrib-uted tu the doctrine. The purpose of the Keljogg re-Interpretatlon re-Interpretatlon was to repudiate such reasoning, the United J 're us waa Informed. It would reduce the doctrine doc-trine to the scope originally announced an-nounced by President Monroe, December De-cember !, I;.1. To that end. Kel-locg's Kel-locg's communication ami t'lark's report, upon which it was based, differentiate between the Vonro doctrlne and our Caribbean policies. The doctrine relates to all the west-frn west-frn hemisphere and the Caribbean niii OFDOCTRIHETO GET NEW BASIS Kellogg. Plans in Hands of Latin Americans for Over Year By LYLC C. WILSON. United Pr-Ma Staff CrrMpondnt, WASHINGTON. June 74 Revelation Revela-tion that a rtlnterpretatlon of the Monroe dortrln had btn In th handg of American diplomats in Stjtith and Ontral America for more than a year created w We Interest In the capital today. Th reinterpret at Ion. dlepatrhed by former Secretary of State Kel-lore Kel-lore about a month before retiring, after the end of the Cootidge administration, ad-ministration, was deeiajned to strip the doctrine of what Henator Borah deacrtbea as constructions which go far beyonJ Ha origlnaT purpose. The doctrine, as Interpreted, would he a policy of self-defenee airatnat Europe without connection with Intervention In-tervention or other developments In our relations with, central American Ameri-can or Insular republics. The fact that such a document had been sent our diplomats in Latin America was not announced by the state department and order for Us delivery to the various gov ernments have not been 1sued. But it waa Indicated the KellefC interpretation represents the present pres-ent state department view of the doclrlne. . Kellogg;' communication waa pollrv merely to the republics of central America and the adjacent I nlandw. .- rrr. 1 1 1 -. -