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Show WRITE THE MONROE DOCTRINE IN 4 Lord Robert Cecil, according to an Associated Press dispatch,"says that America Am-erica is protected by the League of Nations Na-tions Covenant. Here is what he says : "If the Monroe doctrine -means, as I believe it does, that there ought to be no interference vith affairs on the American Ameri-can continent by European powers without with-out the consent of the United States, then I say that the doctrine is strengthened by the League of Nations" If that be true then there can be no objectioiron the parb of Great Britain, or any other nation, to the incorpoatlon of a provision in the Covenant specifically 'recognizing the Monroe doctrine. If they refuse to incorporate such provision it Is certain that they plan to repudiate it after af-ter the League bdeomes an . accomplished fact. It will riot do to say that Lord Cecil or Premie'r Lloyd George said beforehand that the Monroe doctrine would be strengthened by the League in the present pres-ent form of the Covenant. Such expression expres-sion of opinion is binding upon no one. The Covenant is a written contract and it is a rule of law that when a contract is - . Q reduced to writing no previous verbal ' " agreement or understanding or ropresen- J tation can operate to modify or explain V , V the contract. The written contract super- 7 cedes any and all verbal contracts. The fr only contract is the one reduced to writ- I .' ing. Mr. Wilson has said he is. for open 1" diplomacy Let him insist that .the most' h important treaty that the United States 1 ". has ever been called upon to enter into shall openly state just what it means on this most vital question. There is no vot- jd 1 er in the United States, be he Republican 1 or DemocKt, that wants a League of Na- . tions at the expense of the Monroe doctrine. doc-trine. Let the Covenant say what it ffi means. "It is better to be safe than sor- 1 vy" American Economist. m 1 |