Publications of the

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Division of International Law

Washington

The European Background of the
Monroe Doctrine

BY

W. P. CRESSON, Ph. D.

Formerly Secretary of the American Embassy in Petrograd

NEW YORK

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

AMERICAN BRanch, 35 west 32D STREET

LONDON, TORONTO, MELBOurne, and BOMBAY

1922