 | Alexander DeConde - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 404 pages
...both the honor and interests of the United States and warranted its intervention. "Today," he wrote, "the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which] it confines its interposition." He demanded that Britain submit the boundary question to arbitration. The president, who later dubbed... | |
 | Stephen R. Rock - Political Science - 256 pages
...forthcoming. It is in this light that one can understand Richard Olney's boastful declaration that "the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition," words that sound only too much like the bragging of an insecure adolescent uncertain of his position... | |
 | Alyn Brodsky - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 529 pages
...us." Olney went on to insist that the United States was "practically sovereign" on the South American continent, "and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition." The United States' "infinite resources combined with its isolated position render it master of the... | |
 | Félix Ojeda Reyes, Paul Estrade - Nationalism - 2000 - 232 pages
...Venezuela, el Secretario de Estado Richard Olney declaró en una nota a la cancillería británica: "To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fíat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition" ,34 El principal artífice del... | |
 | Steven C. Topik - Political Science - 2000 - 332 pages
...Monroe Doctrine. Brazil was given voice in the 1895 Olney Doctrine, which boasted to the British that "today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its flat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition."2 Secretary of State Olney based... | |
 | John J. Mearsheimer - Political Science - 2003 - 572 pages
...state, when he bluntly told the United Kingdom's Lord Salisbury in his famous July 20, 1895, note, "Today the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. ... Its infinite resources combined with its isolated position render it master of the situation and... | |
 | David Richard McCann, Barry S. Strauss - History - 2001 - 420 pages
...of State Richard Olney declared, with regard to a border dispute with Great Britain over Venezuela, "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Anti-imperialists considered such a statement to be blatantly jingoistic. Nonetheless, it expressed... | |
 | John J. Mearsheimer - Political Science - 2001 - 582 pages
...state, when he bluntly told the United Kingdom's Lord Salisbury in his famous July 20, 1895, note, "Today the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. ... Its infinite resources combined with its isolated position render it master of the situation and... | |
 | Denis Brian - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 449 pages
...Monroe Doctrine could have deadly results. To scare Salisbury into negotiating, Olney claimed that "the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat is law . . . because ... its infinite resources combined with its isolated position render it master of the... | |
 | Peter H. Maguire - History - 2000 - 474 pages
...group in New York and declared. "Today the United States is practically sovereign on this cominem, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its imerposition."'18 Under the new strategic doctrine of Manifest Destiny, American leaders could create... | |
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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. 
