American Foreign Policy in Growth and Action, Volume 3Documentary Research Division, Research Studies Institute, Air University, 1955 - 315 pages |
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... country hang on the event of this negotiation . ... · On April 11 , 1803 the French Finance Minister Talleyrand ... country's claims to the Oregon territory . In return , the United States gave up its own dubious claims to Texas and ...
... country hang on the event of this negotiation . ... · On April 11 , 1803 the French Finance Minister Talleyrand ... country's claims to the Oregon territory . In return , the United States gave up its own dubious claims to Texas and ...
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... countries were broken in mid - 1845 . Mexican military actions across the Rio Grande in April 1846 brought an announcement from President Polk , on May 11 , 1846 , that war existed " by the act of Mexico itself . " Two days later ...
... countries were broken in mid - 1845 . Mexican military actions across the Rio Grande in April 1846 brought an announcement from President Polk , on May 11 , 1846 , that war existed " by the act of Mexico itself . " Two days later ...
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... Greece , and other European countries between 1820 and 1823 . They then turned their attention to the series of revolutions in Latin America which had set up a number 14 AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN GROWTH AND ACTION The Monroe Doctrine.
... Greece , and other European countries between 1820 and 1823 . They then turned their attention to the series of revolutions in Latin America which had set up a number 14 AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN GROWTH AND ACTION The Monroe Doctrine.
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... countries of that continent . The United States was likewise alarmed by the designs of the alliance . Americans reasoned that the European powers , exclusive of Britain , might go from attempts to restore European controls in Latin ...
... countries of that continent . The United States was likewise alarmed by the designs of the alliance . Americans reasoned that the European powers , exclusive of Britain , might go from attempts to restore European controls in Latin ...
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... country ( de facto recognition ) and when the new government had the approval of the people of the country ( de jure recognition ) , pref- erably expressed in a popular election , although this last condition was not an absolute ...
... country ( de facto recognition ) and when the new government had the approval of the people of the country ( de jure recognition ) , pref- erably expressed in a popular election , although this last condition was not an absolute ...
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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.