LATIN AMERICA

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION. DR. George H. Blakeslee....

CONTRASTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONALITY IN THE

ANGLO- AND LATIN-AMERICAN. Señor Don Federico A.

Pezet, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-

tiary from Peru.

II. PAN-AMERICAN POSSIBILITIES. John Barrett, Director-

General of the Pan-American Union, formerly United

States Minister to Siam, Argentina, Panama and

Colombia.....

III. A GLANCE AT LATIN-AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

Francisco

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J. Yanes, Asst. Director, and Secretary of the Govern-

ing Board, of the Pan-American Union. . . . . . .

IV. THE MEXICAN SITUATION FROM A MEXICAN POINT OF

VIEW. Lic. Luis Cabrera, recently Speaker of the

House of Representatives in the Mexican Congress... 47

V. THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES OF THE PRESENT SITUATION

IN MEXICO. Nevin O. Winter, Author of "Mexico and

Her People Today".

VI. THE MEXICAN SITUATION. S. W. Reynolds, formerly

President of the Mexican Central Railway Company,

Limited....

VII. DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL. John Howland, D.D., President of

Colegio Internacional, Guadalajara, Mexico.........

VIII. THE PRESENT SITUATION IN MEXICO AS SHAPED BY PAST

EVENTS. Leslie C. Wells, Professor of French and

Spanish at Clark College.....

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IX. THE PRESENT DAY PHASE OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

F. E. Chadwick, Rear Admiral, United States Navy,

Formerly President of the Naval War College; Chief

of Staff to Admiral Sampson in the Spanish War...... 108

X. THE MONROE DOCTRINE FROM A SOUTH AMERICAN VIEW-

POINT. Honorable Charles H. Sherrill, Envoy Extra-

ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Argentina,

1909-1911... .

XI. SHOULD WE ABANDON THE MONROE DOCTRINE? Hiram

Bingham, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Latin-American

History, Yale University......

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XII. THE Monroe DoctrinE. Honorable George F. Tucker... 151

XIII. THE MODERN MEANING OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE. J. M.

Callahan, Ph.D., Professor of History and Political

Science, West Virginia University....

XIV. THE MONROE DOCTRINE. Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D.,

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Professor of Government, Harvard University...

XV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR LATIN-AMERICAN TRADE. Hon.

John Hays Hammond, LL.D..

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