Memorandum on the Monroe Doctrine; Publications of the Department of State December 17, 1928
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1930. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. xxv, 235, [3] pages. Footnotes. Pencil marks noted. Part of margin on pages xiii/xiv missing but text complete. Cover, had been taped to the spine but is currently separated but present. Cover worn, has notations on it. Consider an as is copy. Main work is worn but intact. J. Reuben Clark was the Undersecretary of State. Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. (September 1, 1871 – October 6, 1961) was an American attorney, civil servant, and a prominent leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Born in Grantsville, Utah Territory, Clark was a prominent attorney in the Department of State, and Undersecretary of State for U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. In 1930, Clark was appointed United States Ambassador to Mexico. Clark received a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah, where he was valedictorian and student-body president. Clark received a law degree from Columbia University, where he also became a member of Phi Delta Phi, a prominent international legal fraternity in which he remained active throughout his life. Clark later became an associate professor at George Washington University. In 1928, as Undersecretary of State to Secretary of State Frank Kellogg in the Coolidge administration, Clark wrote the "Clark Memorandum on the Monroe Doctrine", which repudiated the idea that the United States could arbitrarily use military force in Latin America. The Memorandum was a treatise exploring every nuance of the US's philosophy of hemispherical guardianship. It was published as an official State Department document and partially reprinted in textbooks for years. More