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Show PACE RECEIVES i OFFICIAL NATE Ambassador Is Preparing Re- j ply to Secretary of State ! Bryan's Demand. Condensation of Monroe Doctrine Doc-trine Remarks Leads to Con- If. fused Understanding of Speech. I i T,rLwnd0r;. March 13, Ambassador : Walter Hines Page today received 4 from Secretary of State Bryan 110- .4 ttfication of the United States senate j In regard to his speech on the Pana- y1 ma canal and the Monroe dootrine, delivered before the Association of A 'Chambers of Commerce on Wednes- E! ' day. t The secretary of state requested I the ambassador to cable an explana- I tlon of the speech and Mr, Page lm- . w.. iu oicv;u aim mi-, i-ge mi- tj, mediately began the preparation of A his reply, i After reading fuller accounts of the proceedings In the senate, Ambas- I sador Page came to the conclusion J . that the senators had been misled by j tho-excessive condensation of his re- 5 marks in regard to his interpretation x- of the Monroe doctrine. 5; Mr, Page declared that he distinct- 5, ly had said that the United States I would object to or prohibit any Euro- J pean power from taking more terri- tory in the new world and then in A concluding, had said amid the laugh- iif. tor of the audience: I "So you see that the United States fit. would prefer that no European pow- ff crs should gain more territory in the '1 new world." f The ambassador's remarks, bo de- I dared, had been too greatly con- i densed. When referring to the Pan- (4 ama canal, he had said that Great I Britain would profit most from the 1 canal because she owned the great I bulk of the world's shlpping- 1 nn |