American Foreign Policy in Growth and Action, Volume 3Documentary Research Division, Research Studies Institute, Air University, 1955 - 315 pages |
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... French North Africa .. 7. America's Growing Awareness of Africa's Role in World Politics 264 270 PART IX THE UNITED STATES WORKS FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE DEFENSE 279 1. The United States and Latin America : 1945-1950 .. 2. The United ...
... French North Africa .. 7. America's Growing Awareness of Africa's Role in World Politics 264 270 PART IX THE UNITED STATES WORKS FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE DEFENSE 279 1. The United States and Latin America : 1945-1950 .. 2. The United ...
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... French and Swedish colonies , the in- habitants of the new world were involved , often unwillingly , in the affairs of Europe . For the thir- teen Atlantic seaboard colonies which became the United States of America the policies of ...
... French and Swedish colonies , the in- habitants of the new world were involved , often unwillingly , in the affairs of Europe . For the thir- teen Atlantic seaboard colonies which became the United States of America the policies of ...
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... French decrees , their alleged basis , are revoked . ... He contended that the real cause of British ag- gression , was not to distress an enemy but to destroy a rival . A comparative view of our commerce with England and to the ...
... French decrees , their alleged basis , are revoked . ... He contended that the real cause of British ag- gression , was not to distress an enemy but to destroy a rival . A comparative view of our commerce with England and to the ...
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... French Finance Minister Talleyrand unexpectedly asked Livingston what America's offer would be for all of the Louisiana territory . Livingston wrote , two days later , to Sec- retary of State James Madison . LETTER LIVINGSTON ΤΟ MADISON ...
... French Finance Minister Talleyrand unexpectedly asked Livingston what America's offer would be for all of the Louisiana territory . Livingston wrote , two days later , to Sec- retary of State James Madison . LETTER LIVINGSTON ΤΟ MADISON ...
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... French Revolution . Then we can watch the fortunes of the Monroe Doctrine to the time of the Civil War when it had become a fixed part of American foreign policy . Its influence is still being felt today and the later examples of its ...
... French Revolution . Then we can watch the fortunes of the Monroe Doctrine to the time of the Civil War when it had become a fixed part of American foreign policy . Its influence is still being felt today and the later examples of its ...
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Page 21 - In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 57 - 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 82 - Kingdom, being met together, deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world. First, their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other; Second, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned...
Page 71 - The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
Page 82 - Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want...
Page 33 - A neutral government is bound— First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a power with which it is at peace...
Page 67 - 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 66 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts —for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 34 - Today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 12 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants.