League of Nations Magazine, Volume 3World's Court league, Incorporated, 1917 |
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... public opinion to the sup- port of the general principles so forcefully expressed by the Presi- dent , spokesman for the forward- looking American people . Samuel T. Dutton . N most of the current discussion of the policy of the United ...
... public opinion to the sup- port of the general principles so forcefully expressed by the Presi- dent , spokesman for the forward- looking American people . Samuel T. Dutton . N most of the current discussion of the policy of the United ...
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... public opinion . Certain it is that many minds have been upset and obsessed by war - fever . Certain it is also that a revulsion Massachusetts Branch of The Wo- man's Peace Party , which has issued a leaflet reproduction of the Hens ...
... public opinion . Certain it is that many minds have been upset and obsessed by war - fever . Certain it is also that a revulsion Massachusetts Branch of The Wo- man's Peace Party , which has issued a leaflet reproduction of the Hens ...
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... public opinion of the world in the history of international rela- tions ? We print only definitely authenticated State papers , excluding many news reports of various " official " or " authoritative " statements . THE CENTRAL POWERS ...
... public opinion of the world in the history of international rela- tions ? We print only definitely authenticated State papers , excluding many news reports of various " official " or " authoritative " statements . THE CENTRAL POWERS ...
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... public opinion in the Allied countries . But that public opinion has in spite of all the sacri- fices endured by the Allies already given its answer with admirable firmness , and has denounced the empty pretense of the declaration of ...
... public opinion in the Allied countries . But that public opinion has in spite of all the sacri- fices endured by the Allies already given its answer with admirable firmness , and has denounced the empty pretense of the declaration of ...
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... public opinion , but was transmitted through the State Depart- ment to all the governments of the world . GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE : On the 18th of December last I addressed an identic note to the Governments of the nations now at war ...
... public opinion , but was transmitted through the State Depart- ment to all the governments of the world . GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE : On the 18th of December last I addressed an identic note to the Governments of the nations now at war ...
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Page 368 - Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth ensure the observance of those principles.
Page 483 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments...
Page 237 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
Page 241 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 225 - The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. It is a war against all nations. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. There has been no discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind.
Page 590 - The Governments of the United States and Japan recognize that territorial propinquity creates special relations between countries, and, consequently, the Government of the United States recognizes that Japan has special interests in China, particularly in the part to which her possessions are contiguous.
Page 228 - They are, most of them, as true and loyal Americans as if they had never known any other fealty or allegiance.
Page 36 - No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
Page 39 - Spanish subjects, natives of the Peninsula, residing in the territory over which Spain by the present treaty relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty, may remain in such territory or may remove therefrom, retaining in either event all their rights of property, including the right to sell or dispose of such property or of its proceeds ; and they shall also have the right to carry on their industry, commerce and professions, being subject in respect thereof to such laws aa are applicable to other foreigners.
Page 225 - There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making: we will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our Nation and our people to be ignored or violated.