Senator Lodge's exact words were these:
"The Monroe doctrine is the greatest protection of the United St: To that doctrine we all, without distinction of party, adhere. I am by no means con-vineed that some European Power, perhaps one of those whose navy is just now receiving such a rapid increase, may not want to test that doctrine, and that we may find ourselves called upon to protect Brazil or some other South American State from invasion, and to see to it that no new European State is established in the con-could not obtain the use of a theatre for tinent to the south. Iam not conjuring up imaginary dangers. I think that ther essist, and are very real. I trust they will never actually result in war, but I am sure, the way to prevent any test of the Monroe doctrine, to prevent peaceably the seizure of any part of the South American continent, or of the West Indian islands, by an European Power, is to have an American navy which no P ver in the world can afford to disregard."
Senator Lodge is from Massachusetts, one of the leaders of the younger senators, a man known as well for his literary work as for his service in the Senate. Careful observers, however, count him as somewhat radical, somewhat Gisposed te the *jingo" policy, a word which has come to mean metaphorically waving the flag in and out of season for purposes of popular support.
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