Latin America and the United StatesCentury Company, 1922 - 404 pages |
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... Buenos Aires , our metropolitan press , with few exceptions , is most decidedly provincial . Undoubtedly there has been a remarkable increase in the attention devoted by the average American citizen to European and Asiatic affairs ...
... Buenos Aires , our metropolitan press , with few exceptions , is most decidedly provincial . Undoubtedly there has been a remarkable increase in the attention devoted by the average American citizen to European and Asiatic affairs ...
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... Buenos Aires to inquire whether the shops there used glass in their windows.1 If this Denver merchant had realized that Buenos Aires was approximately seven times as large as his own city , and was the capital of a country that did ...
... Buenos Aires to inquire whether the shops there used glass in their windows.1 If this Denver merchant had realized that Buenos Aires was approximately seven times as large as his own city , and was the capital of a country that did ...
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... Buenos Aires on July 12 , 1910. All the Ameri- can republics were represented except Bolivia , and one of the honorary presidents was Philander C. Knox , Secre- tary of State of the United States . The conference took up and debated an ...
... Buenos Aires on July 12 , 1910. All the Ameri- can republics were represented except Bolivia , and one of the honorary presidents was Philander C. Knox , Secre- tary of State of the United States . The conference took up and debated an ...
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... Buenos Aires in 1916 , and a Central Executive Council was chosen , which has proceeded actively in formulating and submitting drafts of treaties regarded as essential to improve commercial relations between the two Americas . The ...
... Buenos Aires in 1916 , and a Central Executive Council was chosen , which has proceeded actively in formulating and submitting drafts of treaties regarded as essential to improve commercial relations between the two Americas . The ...
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... Buenos Aires , Uruguay , Ecuador , Panama , and Guatemala.1 It was voted at this second conference that the High Commission should continue its work ; and , with a view to more definite indication of its sphere of ac- tivities , it was ...
... Buenos Aires , Uruguay , Ecuador , Panama , and Guatemala.1 It was voted at this second conference that the High Commission should continue its work ; and , with a view to more definite indication of its sphere of ac- tivities , it was ...
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Page 46 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 136 - Cuba, almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude of considerations has become an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union. Its commanding position with reference to the Gulf of Mexico and the West India seas; the character of its population, its situation midway between our southern coast and the island of...
Page 170 - That the government of Cuba shall never enter into any treaty or other compact with any foreign power or powers which will impair or tend to impair the independence of Cuba, nor in any manner authorize or permit any foreign power or powers to obtain by colonization or for military or naval purposes or otherwise, lodgment in or control over any portion of said island.
Page 53 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world ; that no nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Page 141 - I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.
Page 28 - Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace.
Page 121 - Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership in lands, waters, and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions to develop mines, waters, or mineral fuels in the Republic of Mexico. The Nation may grant the same right to foreigners, provided they agree before the...
Page 16 - We wish for no victories but those of peace; for no territory except our own ; for no sovereignty except the sovereignty over ourselves. We deem the independence and equal rights of the smallest and weakest member of the family of nations entitled to as much respect as those of the greatest empire, and we deem the observance of that respect the chief guaranty of the weak against the oppression of the strong.
Page 36 - The political system of the allied powers is essentially different from that of America. . . We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers, to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Page 101 - April 4, 1864, a famous resolution declaring that "the Congress of the United States are unwilling by silence to leave the nations of the world under the impression that they are indifferent spectators of the deplorable events now transpiring in the Republic of Mexico, and...