From Isolation to Leadership: A Review of American Foreign PolicyDoubleday, Page, 1918 - 213 pages |
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Page 13
... Government , through their ambassador at Paris , to fix principles of alliance , and leave us in peace until Congress meets . " 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 . " Jefferson had already informed the British minister Origin of the Policy of Isolation 13.
Page 19
... Congress of Vienna in 1815 and held later meetings at Aix - la- Chapelle in 1818 , at Troppau in 1820 , at Lay- bach in 1821 , and at Verona in 1822 , undertook to legislate for all Europe and was the nearest approach to a world ...
... Congress of Vienna in 1815 and held later meetings at Aix - la- Chapelle in 1818 , at Troppau in 1820 , at Lay- bach in 1821 , and at Verona in 1822 , undertook to legislate for all Europe and was the nearest approach to a world ...
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... congress . The four remaining powers signed the secret treaty of Verona , November 22 , 1822 , as a revision , so they declared in the preamble , of the Treaty of the Holy Alliance , which had been signed at Paris in 1815 by Austria ...
... congress . The four remaining powers signed the secret treaty of Verona , November 22 , 1822 , as a revision , so they declared in the preamble , of the Treaty of the Holy Alliance , which had been signed at Paris in 1815 by Austria ...
Page 48
... a long correspondence ably conducted , had failed to move the British Government , President Cleveland decided to intervene . In a message to Congress in December , 1895 , he reviewed the 48 From Isolation to Leadership.
... a long correspondence ably conducted , had failed to move the British Government , President Cleveland decided to intervene . In a message to Congress in December , 1895 , he reviewed the 48 From Isolation to Leadership.
Page 49
... Congress for an appro- priation to pay the expenses of a commission . which he proposed to appoint for the purpose of determining the true boundary , which he said it would then be our duty to uphold . Lest there should be any ...
... Congress for an appro- priation to pay the expenses of a commission . which he proposed to appoint for the purpose of determining the true boundary , which he said it would then be our duty to uphold . Lest there should be any ...
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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 87 - It is, of course, too early to forecast the means of attaining this last result; but the policy of the Government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire.
Page 63 - Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under the enemy's flag. 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective, that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 35 - 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 137 - 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 65 - 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.
Page 190 - Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.
Page 184 - Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved and the freedom of its peoples, and the menace to that peace and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic governments backed by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not by the will of their people. We have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances.
Page 197 - The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly, and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world; or, if it cannot be presently destroyed, at least its reduction to virtual impotency.
Page 145 - to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.