Selected Articles on the Monroe DoctrineH.W. Wilson Company, 1915 - 253 pages |
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... Central Bank of the United States Woman Suffrage ( 2d ed . rev . ) Municipal Ownership ( 2d ed . rev . and enl . ) Child Labor ( 2d ed . rev . and enl . ) Open versus Closed Shop ( 2d ed . ) Employment of Women Federal Control of ...
... Central Bank of the United States Woman Suffrage ( 2d ed . rev . ) Municipal Ownership ( 2d ed . rev . and enl . ) Child Labor ( 2d ed . rev . and enl . ) Open versus Closed Shop ( 2d ed . ) Employment of Women Federal Control of ...
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... Central and South America . C. It has been condemned by some and vigorously reasserted by others as part of our foreign policy . II . The Monroe Doctrine , as formulated in President Monroe's message of 1823 , was the result of two ...
... Central and South America . C. It has been condemned by some and vigorously reasserted by others as part of our foreign policy . II . The Monroe Doctrine , as formulated in President Monroe's message of 1823 , was the result of two ...
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... Central and South America . 0.7 The need of European Powers for more territory would soon bring about in South America a repetition of what has happened in Africa , if the Monroe Doctrine did not exist to prevent it . The argument that ...
... Central and South America . 0.7 The need of European Powers for more territory would soon bring about in South America a repetition of what has happened in Africa , if the Monroe Doctrine did not exist to prevent it . The argument that ...
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... Central and South America toward the Monroe Doctrine . When we have intervened in the affairs of these re- publics it has been done in a disinterested manner and has been for the benefit of all concerned . In so far as the Doctrine ...
... Central and South America toward the Monroe Doctrine . When we have intervened in the affairs of these re- publics it has been done in a disinterested manner and has been for the benefit of all concerned . In so far as the Doctrine ...
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... Central and South American republics . European colonization would have made for stable government and for the development of com- merce and natural resources . B. It has been to the disadvantage of the United States . It has been a ...
... Central and South American republics . European colonization would have made for stable government and for the development of com- merce and natural resources . B. It has been to the disadvantage of the United States . It has been a ...
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Page 123 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us.
Page 30 - I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Page 6 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Page 66 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...
Page 67 - It is still the true policy of the "United States to leave the parties to themselves, in the hope that other powers will pursue the same course.
Page 9 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs.
Page 12 - 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 142 - I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest. She will devote herself to showing that she knows how to make honorable and fruitful use of the territory she has, and she must regard it as one of the duties of friendship to see that from no quarter are material interests made superior to human liberty and national opportunity.
Page 77 - All that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous. Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. 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.
Page 65 - Practically, the principle for which we contend has peculiar, if not exclusive, relation to the United States. It may not have been admitted in so many words to the code of international law, but since in international councils every nation is entitled to the rights belonging to it, if the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine is something we may justly claim, it has its place in the code of international law as certainly and as securely as if it were specifically mentioned...