Survey of American Foreign Relations 1928-1931Charles Prentice Howland Yale University Press, 1928 - United States |
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... allies and matching military outlay with military outlay . This was the state of things in which the Entente was pitted against the Alliance , each with its satellites , the whole so carefully balanced in military strength that when the ...
... allies and matching military outlay with military outlay . This was the state of things in which the Entente was pitted against the Alliance , each with its satellites , the whole so carefully balanced in military strength that when the ...
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... allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America . This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective Governments . And to the defense of our own , which has been achieved by the loss of so ...
... allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America . This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective Governments . And to the defense of our own , which has been achieved by the loss of so ...
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... allied powers should have thought it proper , on any principle satisfactory to themselves , to have interposed , by force , in the internal concerns of Spain . To what extent such interposition may be carried , on the same principle ...
... allied powers should have thought it proper , on any principle satisfactory to themselves , to have interposed , by force , in the internal concerns of Spain . To what extent such interposition may be carried , on the same principle ...
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... Allies , intervention in Russia , recognition of new governments in central Europe and peace proposals were developed under his authority . As the enemy weakened , party opposition in Congress began to develop . The President's loss of ...
... Allies , intervention in Russia , recognition of new governments in central Europe and peace proposals were developed under his authority . As the enemy weakened , party opposition in Congress began to develop . The President's loss of ...
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... Allied belligerents . The Liberty loan campaigns mobilized the country's financial resources . But the habits of a ... Allies fought their " sort of war " over the peace , American finance held aloof , although it demon- strated on ...
... Allied belligerents . The Liberty loan campaigns mobilized the country's financial resources . But the habits of a ... Allies fought their " sort of war " over the peace , American finance held aloof , although it demon- strated on ...
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Page 47 - 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.
Page 49 - 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 44 - The Canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise Such conditions and charges of traffic shall be just and equitable.
Page 22 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 56 - At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg to arrange by amicable negotiation the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the northwest coast of this continent.
Page 50 - In a word, the principle which she would like to see recognized is : that the public debt can not occasion armed intervention nor even the actual occupation of the territory of American nations by a European power.
Page 57 - In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defense.
Page 58 - ... provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.
Page 500 - Council shall advise how the evil effects attendant upon such manufacture can be prevented, due regard being had to the necessities of those Members of the League which are not able to manufacture the munitions and implements of war necessary for their safety.
Page 496 - The Members of the League recognize that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations.