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...With Secretary of State Hull, President Roosevelt motored to the patioed Pan-American Union Building to address a meeting of the Pan-American Union's governing board. The President interpreted the Monroe Doctrine to his listeners not as an instrument of U. S. dominion over the Americas, but as a mutual protective society "aimed against the acquisition in any manner of the control of additional territory in this hemisphere by any non-American power." For the first time, President Roosevelt took public notice of South America's two undeclared wars between Paraguay and Bolivia, Colombia and Peru...
...over the intention of President Coolidge, at this session, to include under new immigration laws the countries of the New as well as of the Old World. Any such plan was hit a blow by implication of a resolution introduced at the Pan-American conference, that any American republic may restrict immigration "from a non-American continent." The Latin-American republics were unanimously in favor of the resolution, and it was all ready for passage when United States Ambassador Fletcher, whose duty it has been to puncture such ambitions, rose with a reservation to the terms of agreement, which would...
...non-American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future philanthropy by any American person or power...
...Behold him a skulker; a non-American; a 'poor sport'; lacking the man hood to play the Game...
...Doctrine, said Mr. Hughes, as it is now acted upon by the Government, may be summarized as opposed 1) "To any non-American action encroaching upon the political independence of American States under any guise, and 2) to the acquisition in any manner of the control of additional territory in this hemisphere by any non-American power...