Problems in Pan AmericanismGeorge H. Doran Company, 1921 - 415 pages |
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... called on a member of this circle . The Paraguayan was suspicious of him at first and began an examination : " Tell me about my Emerson , " he said to the North Ameri- can , who fortunately knew something of the New England philosopher ...
... called on a member of this circle . The Paraguayan was suspicious of him at first and began an examination : " Tell me about my Emerson , " he said to the North Ameri- can , who fortunately knew something of the New England philosopher ...
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... called " Meditando " shows the remarkable intellec- tual grasp of the man . First there is a long essay on Hamlet , a splendid critical study of Shakespeare's play ; then follow short essays on several of the great men of South America ...
... called " Meditando " shows the remarkable intellec- tual grasp of the man . First there is a long essay on Hamlet , a splendid critical study of Shakespeare's play ; then follow short essays on several of the great men of South America ...
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... called Gólgotha . The theory of democracy is more carefully thought out by Hispanic America than by us . We take it for granted , but she studies it . Latin America has made the fullest con- a tribution to the elaboration of the theory ...
... called Gólgotha . The theory of democracy is more carefully thought out by Hispanic America than by us . We take it for granted , but she studies it . Latin America has made the fullest con- a tribution to the elaboration of the theory ...
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... called Bases for the Organization of the Argentine Republic , in which he ana- lyzed the evolution of Argentina much as Hamilton in his Federalist studied North American life . Domingo F. Sarmiento , the greatest of Argentines , was the ...
... called Bases for the Organization of the Argentine Republic , in which he ana- lyzed the evolution of Argentina much as Hamilton in his Federalist studied North American life . Domingo F. Sarmiento , the greatest of Argentines , was the ...
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... called The Future of Latin America . He points out with cruel frank- ness the weak points of his people which must be strength- ened if they are to resist the " octopus of the North . " Alfredo Colmo , professor of law in the University ...
... called The Future of Latin America . He points out with cruel frank- ness the weak points of his people which must be strength- ened if they are to resist the " octopus of the North . " Alfredo Colmo , professor of law in the University ...
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Page 155 - 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. The political system of the Allied Powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Page 265 - That the government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.
Page 266 - VII. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States.
Page 182 - Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace.
Page 202 - 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 180 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world; that no nation should seek to extend its policy over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own policy, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Page 146 - Almighty will not, be evaded, so let him attempt no evasion, no equivocation. And if, so answering, he can show that the soil was ours where the first blood of the war was shed — that it was not within an inhabited country, or, if within such, that the inhabitants had submitted themselves to the civil authority of Texas, or of the United States, and that the same is true of the site of Fort Brown — then I am with him for his justification.
Page 155 - 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 188 - It will be accomplished, in the first place, by the states of America uniting in guaranteeing to each other absolute political independence and territorial integrity. In the second place, and as a necessary corollary to that, guaranteeing the agreement to settle all pending boundary disputes as soon as possible and by amicable process; by agreeing that all disputes among themselves, should they unhappily...
Page 133 - That the United States, under the peculiar circumstances of the existing crisis, cannot, without serious inquietude, see any part of the said territory pass into the hands of any foreign power; and that a due regard to their own safety compels them to provide, under certain contingencies, for the temporary occupation of the said territory...