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Monroe Doctrine (Latin America in the Twentieth Century Series)
Monroe Doctrine - Latin America in the Twentieth Century Series Author:Hiram Bingham Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VII It is conceivable that there may come a day when threatened foreign invasion or racial migration will make it appear advisable for us to reassert the prin... more »ciples of the original doctrine of America for the Americans. At present, to be sure, the "ABC" powers regard the original Monroe Doctrine as long since outgrown, and as being merely a display of insolence and conceit on our part. With Brazil now owning the largest dreadnoughts in the world; with Argentina and Chile building equally good ones; with the fact that the European nations have long since lost their tendency toward monarchical despotism, and are in fact quite as democratic as many American republics, it does seem a bit ridiculous for us to pretend that the Monroe Doctrine is a necessary element in our foreign policy. Nevertheless, there are those who think that the most natural outlet for the crowded Asiatic nations is to be found in South America, and that Japan and China will soon be knocking most loudly for admission. There are already fifteen thousand Chinese in Peru. They readily assimilate with the Peruvians. The Chinese colony is rich and influential; it has taken firm root in this new land, while it retains undiminished its pride of race and its active sympathies for the progressive movement in China." Peru, as well as Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia, is still overwhelmingly Indian in, population. Dr. Hrdlicka, one of the leading authorities on American Anthropology, is of the opinion that the peoples of Northeastern Asia closely resemble the American aborigines. It seems not improbable that South America was once colonized largely by Asiatics. It seems to me equally probable that a similar movement may happen again. A recent writer on "the Yellow Peril," Mr. Bland, for many years the London...« less