A large and influential body of American opinion at first insisted that the acquisition of the West Indian, Philippine, and Sandwich Islands constituted an utter abandonment of that Doctrine; and apparently most European publicists have accepted this view.
Reid notes that a significant portion of American opinion viewed the acquisition of certain territories as a departure from the Monroe Doctrine.
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