American Foreign Policy in Growth and Action, Volume 3Documentary Research Division, Research Studies Institute, Air University, 1955 - 315 pages |
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... political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume among the Powers of the earth , the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them , a decent respect to the opinions of ...
... political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume among the Powers of the earth , the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them , a decent respect to the opinions of ...
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... political connection as possible . So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith . Here let us stop . Our detached and distant situation invites and ena- bles us to pursue a different course ...
... political connection as possible . So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith . Here let us stop . Our detached and distant situation invites and ena- bles us to pursue a different course ...
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... political manipulations . Also , not all territorial annexation can be classi- fied under the heading of manifest destiny . Some additions to the territory of the United States were achieved by other means , as has been and will be ...
... political manipulations . Also , not all territorial annexation can be classi- fied under the heading of manifest destiny . Some additions to the territory of the United States were achieved by other means , as has been and will be ...
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... political party platform had called for the former , but a politi- cally responsible Senate had committed itself to the acceptance of the latter . Annexation by joint resolution of Congress As Secretary of State in 1819 , when the ...
... political party platform had called for the former , but a politi- cally responsible Senate had committed itself to the acceptance of the latter . Annexation by joint resolution of Congress As Secretary of State in 1819 , when the ...
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... political system of the allied powers is essen- tially different in this respect from that of America We owe it , therefore , to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we ...
... political system of the allied powers is essen- tially different in this respect from that of America We owe it , therefore , to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we ...
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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.