...safeguard like independence and secure like permanence for tlie lesser among the New World nation?. This doctrine has nothing to do with the commercial...such as it desires. In other words, it is really a guaranty of the commercial independence of the Americas. We do not ask under this doctrine for any...

...power on American soil. It is in no wise intended as hostile to any nation in the Old World. . . . This doctrine has nothing to do with the commercial...truth allows each of them to form such as it desires " The next year the three powers began hostilities against Venezuela by seizing her gunboats and blockading...