The Purpose of the Nation in the Present War: An Essay. Read Before the Chitchat Club, San Francisco, July 1898Murdock Press, 1898 - 37 pages |
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... forms the largest system of internal water communication in the world . It keeps watch at the door- way of our intercourse with California by the Isthmus route . If an island like Cuba , belonging to the Spanish Crown , guarded the ...
... forms the largest system of internal water communication in the world . It keeps watch at the door- way of our intercourse with California by the Isthmus route . If an island like Cuba , belonging to the Spanish Crown , guarded the ...
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... forms , and messages of Presidents , there has been an accompanying thread of mild , self - accusing protest against the charge of desiring to acquire the Island of Cuba . The strength of the utterances on the one hand and the feeble ...
... forms , and messages of Presidents , there has been an accompanying thread of mild , self - accusing protest against the charge of desiring to acquire the Island of Cuba . The strength of the utterances on the one hand and the feeble ...
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... forms and public policy of their own , and attached to Europe by no ties save those of international amity , and of intellectual , commercial , and social intercourse . The desire of independence on the part of the Cubans is a natural ...
... forms and public policy of their own , and attached to Europe by no ties save those of international amity , and of intellectual , commercial , and social intercourse . The desire of independence on the part of the Cubans is a natural ...
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The Purpose of the Nation in the Present War: An Essay (Classic Reprint) William H. Mills No preview available - 2017 |
The Purpose of the Nation in the Present War: An Essay (Classic Reprint) William H. Mills No preview available - 2016 |
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