From Isolation to Leadership: Revised. A Review of American Foreign PolicyDoubleday, Page, 1922 - 294 pages |
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... principle and it has been fully justified by nearly a century of experience . It has saved South America from the kind of exploitation to which the continents of Africa and Asia have , during the past generation , fallen a prey . The ...
... principle and it has been fully justified by nearly a century of experience . It has saved South America from the kind of exploitation to which the continents of Africa and Asia have , during the past generation , fallen a prey . The ...
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... principle quite distinct from the Monroe Doctrine and is in fact utterly in- consistent with the position and importance of the United States as a world power . The dif- ference in principle between the two policies can perhaps best be ...
... principle quite distinct from the Monroe Doctrine and is in fact utterly in- consistent with the position and importance of the United States as a world power . The dif- ference in principle between the two policies can perhaps best be ...
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... principle , which is now one of the fundamental doctrines of international law , was so ably expounded by Jefferson that his words are well worth quoting . " I consider the people who constitute a so- ciety or nation as the source of ...
... principle , which is now one of the fundamental doctrines of international law , was so ably expounded by Jefferson that his words are well worth quoting . " I consider the people who constitute a so- ciety or nation as the source of ...
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... principles by which he proposed to regulate his foreign policy in the following terms : " Peace , com- merce , and honest friendship with all nations , entangling alliances with none . " During the brief interval of peace following the ...
... principles by which he proposed to regulate his foreign policy in the following terms : " Peace , com- merce , and honest friendship with all nations , entangling alliances with none . " During the brief interval of peace following the ...
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... Government , through their ambassador at Paris , to fix principles of alliance , and leave us in peace until Congress meets . 99 Jefferson had already informed the British minister Origin of the Policy of Isolation 13.
... Government , through their ambassador at Paris , to fix principles of alliance , and leave us in peace until Congress meets . 99 Jefferson had already informed the British minister Origin of the Policy of Isolation 13.
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Page 209 - The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development...
Page 200 - 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.
Page 38 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Page 10 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Page 208 - Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored without any attempt to limit , the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free 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...
Page 37 - 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 139 - If a nation shows that it knows 'how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States. Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society...
Page 139 - 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 278 - To use their influence for the purpose of effectually establishing and maintaining the principle of equal opportunity for the commerce and industry of all nations throughout the territory of China...
Page 67 - Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to require the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of not intruding upon, interfering with, or entangling itself in the political questions of policy or internal administration of any foreign state; nor shall anything contained in the said convention be construed to imply a relinquishment by the United States of America of its traditional attitude toward purely American questions.