Page Six SCARLET ANT. BLACK. Friday, March I0, l96l Talbot View: Doctrine} Effects By Judith Talbnt When President Monroe sent his annual message to Congress‘ in Dec, includcd lilmuus Tolerance to America: ~The occasion been judged proper for ing as a principle in which the rights and interests at the US are involved that the American continents are hencei ~th not to be considered as subjects for iuture colonization by any European power . . . we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion or this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and satety . . . " Thc Monroe Doctrine was a statement prompted by concern ior the security at the US, not by concern for the fate oi the newly independent Latin Ameri— can countries; the statement was directed at European, not ,at Latin American ears. The US would be much saier with small independent nations as neighbors than with large European colonies. Following the proclamation oi the Doc. trine, the relative "peace and sa.y in the western hemis- phere was actually guaranteed by British control of the seas. in the 19th century, two im- portant and lasting attitudes toward the Monroe Doctrine evolved in the us. The iirst, influenced by the moral over— tones oi the doctrine: the big brother attitude; the second, given impetus by the policy of hegemony and the senti— ments oi Maniiest Destiny: the interpretation oi the doctrine so that it seemed to imply the right or US intervention Corollary aiter corollary (Pulk, Hayes, etc.) demon» striated the latter influence. In Latin America there were also two general attitudes ios— tered by us actions and the Monroe Doctrine. There was a certain tear of European inter- vention. which gave rise to an appreciative altitude, an accept- ance oi the original statement of the Doctrine. The other atti— tude, far stronger, was resent— ment toward the Colossus oi the North. Resentment deepened as each corollary departed iarthcr. iroin the original statement. 1823, he a has A good example or the con— tradictory attitudes on both sides is found in the study oi the Venezuelan request for arbitra- tion by the SU in the British Venezuelan controversy over the Venezuelan-Guiana border in 1875, Venezuela appealed to the US to help her in a dispute with Britain, but she was cer- tainly also distrustiul or how Pres. Cleveland might l-eintel‘r pret the Monroe Doctrinc. Cleve- land‘s use or the Doctrine in the case, even though the British logically proved that due ing so was stretching the point way oii base, led directly to Teddy Roosevelt's corollaries and the era ol Dollar Diplo— macy. Roosevelt's corollaries added to the Doctrine the right oi the US to exercise police power in Latin America to make sure that debts were paid, govern: . ments were eiircicnt, that there no “chronic wrongdoing" which might “ uirc interven— tion by some c ilized nation 'and that in_the western hemis— phere the adhcren e at the Us to the Monroe Doctrins may iorce the US , , . to the exei oi an international police force." This new announcement was made for Latin American cars; such an extension oi President Monroe’s phrases has since been proved, notably by the Clark Rcicreirdum. to bc cntirciy nne justiiicible. it is signilrcant to note that even in this lilo