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The Monroe Doctrine in 1940

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

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References

1 Vol. 29 (1935), p. 105.

2 See Charles G. Fenwick, “The Buenos Aires Conference: 1936,” XIII Foreign Policy Reports (1937), pp. 90,92. The text of the convention is in Department of State Publication No. 1088, Conference Series No. 33, Report of the Delegation of the United States of America, p. 17; also in this Journal, Supplement, Vol. 31 (1937), p. 53.

3 Department of State Press Releases, Dec. 24, 1938, p. 474; this Journal, Supp., p. 199.

4 Department of State Bulletin, Oct. 7, 1939, p. 334.

5 The texts of the resolutions may be found in Department of State Bulletin, Aug. 24, 1940, p. 127 ff.

6 In his message to Congress, Dec. 6, 1869, President Grant declared that the Spanish “dependencies are no longer regarded as subject to transfer from one European power to another.” Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. VII, p. 32.

7 Senate Report No. 1770 to accompany S. J. Res. 271 ; House Report No. 2400 to accompany H. J. Res. 556.

8 Save for the italicized words which do not appear in the Senate Report.

9 As quoted in J. Reuben Clark, Memorandum on the Monroe Doctrine (1930), State Department Publication No. 37, p. xii. See Moore, Digest of International Law, Vol. 6, p. 372.

10 League of Nations Official Journal, 1928, p. 1606.

11 Ibid., p. 1608. Cf. Report of Sub-Committee No. 4 of the First Committee of the Assembly regarding Article 21 of the Covenant, Records of the Second Assembly, 1921, p. 22 ff.

12 Op. cit., supra, note 9, p. xi.

13 Department of State Bulletin, June 22, 1940, pp. 681–682.

14 Ibid., July 6, 1940, p. 3. The “legal validity” of the Monroe Doctrine is not actually involved.

15 H. J. Res. 556 was amended to substitute “this hemisphere” for “Western Hemisphere.”

16 Letter to Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, June 8, 1940, Congressional Record, June 10, 1940, Vol. 86, p. 11963.

17 “The Geography of the Monroe Doctrine and the Limits of the Western Hemisphere,” Geographical Review, July, 1940, p. 525.

18 Iceland: The First American Republic (1939).

19 Cf. President Wilson’s phrase in his speech of Jan. 22,1917: “The doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world.”