THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

Evening Star, Issue 14931, 18 July 1912, Page 5

THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

Fraternal pan-Americanism was the keynote at a notable banquet of the PanAmerican Society at New York recently, ;;t which Mr Knox, the Secretary of State, the Ambassadors of Brazil and Mexico, and the Ministers of all the other nations comprised in the Pan-American Union were the guests of honor. Mr Knox, who was the principal speaker, s;;id that the main motive of his recent mission to the Caribbean was to make the approaching opening of the Panama Canal the text of a message of fraternal greeting to all peoples in its immediate sphere to dwell on the benefits which the canal would bring, and to assure them that it should mark the beginning of a new era of closer relations between all the Americans. "We assume this great task," he said, -'not for selfish ends, self-aggrandisement, or political mastery, but lather for the common benefit of tlie Western world and all mankind. We wish to.see the other nat'ons of this hemisphere grow stronger and more stable, and we desire that good-will may mark our intercourse with them in the future as in the past. If this is to come about we must understand each other and cast aside all unworthy imputations of sinister motives and malevolent designs."