I ask your attention for a few minutes to some observations upon the Monroe Doctrine. If I am justified in taking your time it will be not because I say anything novel, but because there is occasion for restating well settled matters which seem to have been overlooked in some recent writings on the subject.
We are all familiar with President Monroe’s famous message of December 2, 1823.
Opening Address by Elihu Root, as The Real Monroe Doctrine1, at The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society, in Washington, April 22, 1914.
1 Opening Address by Elihu Root, , as President of the American Society of International Law, at The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society, in Washington, April 22, 1914 Google Scholar.