A Digest of International Law: As Embodied in Diplomatic Discussions, Treaties and Other International Agreements, International Awards, the Decisions of Municipal Courts, and the Writings of Jurists ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 |
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... government are different from our own . The deep interest which we feel in the spread of liberal principles and the establishment of free governments , and the sympathy with which we witness every struggle against oppression , forbid ...
... government are different from our own . The deep interest which we feel in the spread of liberal principles and the establishment of free governments , and the sympathy with which we witness every struggle against oppression , forbid ...
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... government to Peru . Mr. Blaine especially deprecated this action because there then existed a serious difference ... Government is unable to understand the abolition of the Calderon government and the arrest of President Calderon ...
... government to Peru . Mr. Blaine especially deprecated this action because there then existed a serious difference ... Government is unable to understand the abolition of the Calderon government and the arrest of President Calderon ...
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... government of Colombia therefore felt itself justified . in proposing that all the governments of Spanish America in accord with the United States take " common action for the obtainment from that of Spain of the recognition of the ...
... government of Colombia therefore felt itself justified . in proposing that all the governments of Spanish America in accord with the United States take " common action for the obtainment from that of Spain of the recognition of the ...
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... government . But , in case General Sickles with- drew , no new minister was to be accredited to the government of Spain until there should be reason to expect such a change in the disposition of that government with reference to the ...
... government . But , in case General Sickles with- drew , no new minister was to be accredited to the government of Spain until there should be reason to expect such a change in the disposition of that government with reference to the ...
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... government has ever since been ready thus to aid in restoring peace and quiet . " The government of the United States has heretofore given expression to no policy in reference to the insurrection in Cuba , because it has honestly and ...
... government has ever since been ready thus to aid in restoring peace and quiet . " The government of the United States has heretofore given expression to no policy in reference to the insurrection in Cuba , because it has honestly and ...
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Page 388 - 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 445 - 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.
Page 214 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Page 389 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent, without endangering our peace and happiness ; nor can any one believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition, in any form, with indifference.
Page 524 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 531 - 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 388 - The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of the liberty and happiness of their fellow-men on that side of the Atlantic. 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 559 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power as a willful aggression upon its rights and interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which, after investigation, we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.
Page 525 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers.
Page 357 - OBSERVE good faith and justice towards all nations, cultivate peace and harmony with all ; religion and morality enjoin, this conduct ; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.