Former Senator Burton's Trip to South America, 1915

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The Endowment, 1915 - South America - 40 pages
 

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Page 38 - In many parts of South America there has been much misunderstanding of the attitude and purposes of the United States toward the other American Republics. An idea had become prevalent that our assertion of the Monroe Doctrine implied, or carried with it, an assumption of superiority, and of a right to exercise some kind of protectorate over the countries to whose territory that doctrine applies. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Page 2 - ... to be too specific regarding the scope and method of cooperation which may be possible with our South American friends, but you will readily observe in the monographs handed to you a number of ways in which such cooperation may be accomplished with but little delay. For example: (a) the formation of national societies of international law to be affiliated with the American Institute of International Law; (b) the presentation to the different governments of the opportunity to participate in the...
Page 23 - ... 1926, the absence of reported accidents on the Central for that year does not, of course, indicate that there were no accidents. Likewise the absence of reports from the Paulista does not necessarily mean that there were no accidents on its lines. The writer, however, has examined all the reports of the secretary of agriculture and public works of the state of Sao Paulo since 1900 and in none of them has he found complaints of accidents on the Paulista. Its accident record is probably the best...