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Show oo I " Colby Declares Monroe Doctrine Doc-trine Open to Attack as Europe Loses Power CHICAGO, May 13. America's position posi-tion In tho world today Is "quio tho reverse of Isolation" Secretary of State Colby declared In an address in which he defended tho league of nations and pointed out that the Urftted States had been saved from the actual test of war in defending the Monro doctrine. Tho secretary said that such a test had been prevented "not alone by tho respect of the Avorld for martial qualities qual-ities of America nor for a sincere attachment at-tachment to the doctrine but by tho European balance of power, which has checked the confidence and restrained the initiative of tho nations which havo from time to time beon tempted to call the doctrine Into question." "Thus wo see," he added, "that with reference to the Monroe doctrine alone our position has beon quite the reverse of Isolation. On the contrary we have been not only exposed repeatedly to the machinations of European power, but havo been to a demonstrable extent ex-tent tho beneficiary of the inter-play of complicated currents of European policy. "It remained for the great war to t finally shatter tho American tradition of isolation and to dispel the illusion of security arising from our geographical geograph-ical position." In referring to the Monroe Doctrine, Mr. Colby said that Its source was distinctly dis-tinctly European. on . |