A League of Nations, Volume 1World Peace Foundation, 1918 |
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... Emperor Greater need for popular understanding of international relations . . APPENDIX I. OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES WITH GERMANY : 1. The Japanese ultimatum , August 15 , 1914 2. Imperial Japanese rescript declaring war , August 23 , 1914 ...
... Emperor Greater need for popular understanding of international relations . . APPENDIX I. OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES WITH GERMANY : 1. The Japanese ultimatum , August 15 , 1914 2. Imperial Japanese rescript declaring war , August 23 , 1914 ...
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... Emperor of Russia invited the powers to what became known as the First Peace Conference at The Hague . In 1896 , David Jayne Hill , assistant secretary of state , had delivered an address entitled " International Justice ; with a Plan ...
... Emperor of Russia invited the powers to what became known as the First Peace Conference at The Hague . In 1896 , David Jayne Hill , assistant secretary of state , had delivered an address entitled " International Justice ; with a Plan ...
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... Emperor and the majority of the Delegation . Good soldiers do not desert . No minister of foreign affairs can carry on negotiations of this importance if he does not know , if all the world does not know , that he is borne up by the ...
... Emperor and the majority of the Delegation . Good soldiers do not desert . No minister of foreign affairs can carry on negotiations of this importance if he does not know , if all the world does not know , that he is borne up by the ...
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... Emperor William I of Germany and Em- peror - King Francis Joseph of Austria - Hungary met at Berlin Sep- tember 5-12 ... Emperors remained firm only three years . In 1876 the Tsar met Francis Joseph at Reichstadt and while in a carriage ...
... Emperor William I of Germany and Em- peror - King Francis Joseph of Austria - Hungary met at Berlin Sep- tember 5-12 ... Emperors remained firm only three years . In 1876 the Tsar met Francis Joseph at Reichstadt and while in a carriage ...
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... Emperor of Germany the Tsar demanded that the German representative yield in all instances to the wishes of his Russian colleague . Alexander II wrote in effect that the acceptance by Germany of this demand was the condition of the ...
... Emperor of Germany the Tsar demanded that the German representative yield in all instances to the wishes of his Russian colleague . Alexander II wrote in effect that the acceptance by Germany of this demand was the condition of the ...
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Page 295 - Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.
Page 137 - All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored; and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be. righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all. IX. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality. X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to...
Page 253 - In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defense.
Page 254 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us...
Page 27 - Differences which may arise of a legal nature or relating to the interpretation of treaties existing between the two contracting parties and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy...
Page 261 - A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic Government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
Page 284 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 252 - The question upon which the whole future peace and policy of the world depends is this: Is the present war a struggle for a just and secure peace, or only for a new balance of power? If it be only a struggle for a new balance of power, who will guarantee, who can guarantee, the stable equilibrium of the new arrangement?
Page 321 - The authority of the legitimate power having in fact passed into »nd safety, the hands of the occupant, the latter shall take all the measures in his power to restore, and ensure, as far as possible, public order and safety...
Page 137 - ... nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired. VIII. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine...