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A. T. MAHAN accepted action advantage Afghanistan already Asia Minor ASIATIC CONDITIONS base Black Sea Britain canal centre character China Chinese civilization commerce communications concerned continued countries decisive depends direction distance East eastern effect Egypt element essential European evident exclusive exerted existing expansion extension external fact factors favor flanks force future Germany Gibraltar greater immediate importance impulse India influence interest internal involved Isthmus Isthmus of Panama Japan land power latter less Levant long view maritime Mediterranean ment Mesopotamia military Monroe doctrine movement mutual natural naval navy necessary necessity ness numbers operations peace permanent Persia Persian Gulf Philippines political position possession possible predominance preponderant present probable problem of Asia progress question race racial recognized regions relative resting result route Russia sea power seaboard short view strength Suez Suez Canal tendency tenure territory Teutonic tion United western Yang-tse-kiang zone
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Page 206 - has been pleased to direct, and it is hereby declared, that the following articles of a new Convention shall, when ratified by the Volksraad, be substituted for the articles embodied in the Convention of August 3,
Page 185 - Not every saying of Washington is as true now as it was when uttered, and some have been misapplied ; but it is just as true now as ever, that it is vain to expect governments to act continuously on any other ground than national interest. They have no right to do so, being agents and not principals.
Page 224 - With these propositions, however, were coupled three conditions, one of which was a provision for arbitration, to which the British Government acceded tentatively. The other two, already quoted, were : "That Her Majesty's Government will agree that the present intervention shall not form a precedent for future similar action, and that in the future no interference in the internal affairs of the Republic will take
Page 211 - State may enter with foreign Powers. Whatever suzerainty meant in the Convention of Pretoria, the condition of things which it implies still remains ; although the word is not actually employed, we have kept the substance. We have abstained from using the word, because it was not capable of legal definition, and because it seemed to be a word which was likely to lead to misconception and misunderstanding.
Page 80 - war," to use Napoleon's jibe, " can be made without running risks." The truer solution for a state already holding Malta and Gibraltar would seem to be to grasp Egypt firmly, to consolidate local tenure there, and to establish in India, Australia, and the Cape sources of necessary supply, — whether manufactories or
Page 170 - for good ; it is the influence of a nation which respects the right of peoples to shape their own destinies, pushing even to exaggeration its belief in their ability to do so. But it is vain to hope for national influence in China, unless representative Chinese
Page 66 - more so because their traditional friendship for Russia can be alienated only by the latter promoting a policy distinctly hostile to their interests. Yet, while this is so, Americans must accept and familiarize their minds to the fact that, with their irrevocable entry into the world's polity, first by the assertion of the Monroe doctrine, and since by their insular