 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1915 - 498 pages
...Canadians demanded, but that there were minor questions, topographical trifles, which they might discuss. "The claim of the Canadians for access to deep water along any part of the Alaskan coast is," he wrote, "just exactly as indefensible as if they should now suddenly claim the... | |
 | Hermann Hagedorn - 1919 - 394 pages
...United States. The affair dealt with Alaska, whose eastern boundary along the strip above the 64° 40' line had been a matter of dispute for generations....claim the island of Nantucket." He would not arbitrate on the possession of the large sections of Alaska which the Canadians demanded, he went on, but there... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1919 - 532 pages
...Chamberlain, Mr. Balfour, and two or three other prominent Englishmen. In this letter he wrote: The claims of the Canadians for access to deep water along any part of the Alaskan Coast is just exactly as indefensible as if they should now suddenly claim the Island of Nantucket.... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1921 - 312 pages
...arbitration to foresee the fatal tendency of all arbitrators to compromise." Roosevelt believed that the "claim of the Canadians for access to deep water along any part of the Alaskan coast is just exactly as indefensible as if they should now claim the island of Nantucket."... | |
 | Oscar Douglas Skelton - 1921 - 618 pages
..."diplomatic and political" errand. 1 So far as the actual decision of the i The letter ran, in part: "'. . . The claim of the Canadians for access to deep water along any part of the Alaskan coast is just exactly as indefensible as if they should now suddenly claim the island of Nantucket.... | |
 | Harold Howland - 1921 - 312 pages
...arbitration to foresee the fatal tendency of all arbitrators to compromise." Roosevelt believed that the "claim of the Canadians for access to deep water along any part of the Alaskan coast is just exactly as indefensible as if they should now claim the island of Nantucket."... | |
 | Harold Howland - 1921 - 332 pages
...arbitration to foresee the fatal tendency of all arbitrators to compromise. ' ' Roosevelt believed that the "claim of the Canadians for access to deep water along any part of the Alaskan coast is just exactly as indefensible as if they should now claim the island of Nantucket."... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1922 - 450 pages
...request Congress to make an appropriation which will enable me to run the boundary on my own hook. . . . The claim of the Canadians for access to deep water along any part of the Canadian [Alaskan] coast is just exactly as indefensible as if they should now suddenly claim the island... | |
 | Edward Parliament Kohn - 2004 - 274 pages
...an appropriation which will enable me to run the boundary on my own hook." He repeated his view that the "claim of the Canadians for access to deep water along any part of the Canadian coast is just as indefensible as if they should now suddenly claim the island of Nantucket."... | |
 | 1921 - 332 pages
...arbitration to foresee the fatal tendency of all arbitrators to compromise. ' ' Roosevelt believed that the "claim of the Canadians for access to deep water along any part of the Alaskan coast is just exactly as indefensible as if they should now claim the island of Nantucket."... | |
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The claim of the Canadians for access to deep water along any part of the Alaskan coast is," he wrote, "just exactly as indefensible as if they should now suddenly claim the island of Nantucket. 