J 45 II. Acknowledgment of the right of the citizens of all and any of the signatory countries to institute suit, either acting by themselves, or through legal or other representatives, in the Permanent Court for any violation of law, despoliation of property or loss of life committed against them or against the community by any of the governments.
and III. Recognition of the principles of the Knox note as obligatory international doctrine, like the Monroe Doctrine, in the following, or somewhat similar terms. The United States and the other signatory powers will consider any war between two or more countries of North America, or civil war in any of them, and all attempts at oppression or tyranny committed against the nations or their citizens, as an attack against the commerce and prosperity of North America, and they declare their obligation to remedy the evil, either severally or jointly, hereby guaranteeing the continued maintenance of lawful governments respectful of the property and of the lives of the people, and also the suppression of usurpers claiming through coups état, violence in elections or other manifest fraud.
This doctrine, it is understood, is simply a corollary of the Monroe Doctrine. If the United States are obliged to regard as an act of hostility committed against them any attempt to oppress any independent state of America, as also any foreign intermeddling in American mat