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Europe. As soon as an organized state, situate upon the American
continents, ventures to interfere in a European struggle by
sending troops to the Old World, it throws down a challenge
which demands the taking of military measures which must
naturally extend themselves to the American continent.
This dictum, which is almost in the nature of a political
axiom, has been further elucidated by Judge Dr. Paul Alexander
Katz in the "Vossische Zeitung" of October 3rd, 1914.
The German Government has so far maintained a most
exemplary attitude towards this purely arbitrary Monroe
Doctrine, and it has sacrificed much merely for the sake of
maintaining friendly relations with the United States. Whether
this will be possible in the future, considering the hostile attitude
of the American Government is a difficult and momentous
question which extends beyond the purpose or scope of this
work. In any case the attitude of the government of the United
States is such that this great question of the future can hardly
be said to appear in a particularly favorable light—in the sense
of real Americanism. That nation which frivolously discards
its real neutrality and ventures to interfere in European contingencies,
possesses no right from the point of view of international
law, to consider itself in any degree ex lex so far as
European interpretations are concerned. Is it Japan who must
persuade the United States of the foolish ishness of its past
and present policy of provocation towards Germany?
Not only has the Monroe Doctrine been shaken to its very
foundations by the position assumed by the United States,
but also by the numerous violations of neutrality of which
England has been guilty in connection with South American
states, especially Brazil and Chile. 1
1 1. A notorious breach of neutrality, for example, according to a Brazilian
paper, was the part played by the English cruiser "Glasgow" in the sea-fight
off the Malvina Islands. After the battle of Coronel, off the Chilean coast,
the "Glasgow" was obliged to put into Rio de Janeiro for repairs. This is
permitted to belligerent powers. Warships in such cases are allowed to remain
in a neutral harbor, until the necessary repairs are effected, and are under no
obligation to be dismantled.
They are supposed, however, to make only such repairs as will ensure
the safety of the ship's homeward voyage. The "Glasgow," apparently, was
completely refitted, and that in the dockyard of the Ministry of Marine. Then