Latin America and the United StatesCentury Company, 1922 - 404 pages |
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... claim nor desire any rights or privileges or powers that we do not freely concede to every American republic . . . . Let us help each other to show that for all the races of men the liberty for which we have fought and labored is the ...
... claim nor desire any rights or privileges or powers that we do not freely concede to every American republic . . . . Let us help each other to show that for all the races of men the liberty for which we have fought and labored is the ...
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... claiming the Pacific coast down to the fifty - first degree , and at the same time declaring that Bering Sea and the North Pacific were closed seas and subject to his exclusive juris- diction . Adams protested vigorously both against ...
... claiming the Pacific coast down to the fifty - first degree , and at the same time declaring that Bering Sea and the North Pacific were closed seas and subject to his exclusive juris- diction . Adams protested vigorously both against ...
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... claim antedating the seizure by Buenos Aires , the United States acknowledged the Brit- ish sovereignty.1 The first enlargement of the doctrine so as to preclude the transfer of American territory from one foreign coun- try to another ...
... claim antedating the seizure by Buenos Aires , the United States acknowledged the Brit- ish sovereignty.1 The first enlargement of the doctrine so as to preclude the transfer of American territory from one foreign coun- try to another ...
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... claims had been met , or whether because they were dissatisfied with the attitude of the French , withdrew their forces early in 1862. The French , while disclaiming any ulterior motives , pushed for- ward their forces , seized the city ...
... claims had been met , or whether because they were dissatisfied with the attitude of the French , withdrew their forces early in 1862. The French , while disclaiming any ulterior motives , pushed for- ward their forces , seized the city ...
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... claims.1 After the Spanish - American War had extended our ter- ritories to certain of the Spanish colonies , it became a matter of even greater interest to Latin - Americans to know just how far our peace and safety would lead us in ...
... claims.1 After the Spanish - American War had extended our ter- ritories to certain of the Spanish colonies , it became a matter of even greater interest to Latin - Americans to know just how far our peace and safety would lead us in ...
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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...