Drago was responding to a tension between the Monroe Doctrine keeping Europe out and the European demand for repayments of debts. It assumed the principle of sovereign equality that the United States had long supported. It explicitly stated that no foreign power, including the United States, could use force against a nation in the Western Hemisphere to collect government debts.
Drago was responding to a tension between the Monroe Doctrine keeping Europe out and the European demand for repayments of debts It assumed the principle of sovereign equality that the United States had long supported It explicitly stated that no foreign power including the United States could use force against a nation in the Western Hemisphere to collect government debts