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... land surface , and more than a billion human beings , are included in the colonies and " backward countries " dominated by a few imperialist nations . Every man , woman and child in Great Britain has ten colonial subjects , black ...
... land surface , and more than a billion human beings , are included in the colonies and " backward countries " dominated by a few imperialist nations . Every man , woman and child in Great Britain has ten colonial subjects , black ...
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... land should adopt a policy of emancipating her colonies . Such views were by no means allowed to pass unchallenged , but they were shared by more than one official . Henry Thring , Home Office Counsel , who drafted legislation for the ...
... land should adopt a policy of emancipating her colonies . Such views were by no means allowed to pass unchallenged , but they were shared by more than one official . Henry Thring , Home Office Counsel , who drafted legislation for the ...
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... land and microscopic St. Pierre and Miquelon nearby , a corner of Guiana , a foothold here and there on the African coast , an undeveloped claim in Madagascar , the Île de Bourbon , and five unimportant trading posts in India - a total ...
... land and microscopic St. Pierre and Miquelon nearby , a corner of Guiana , a foothold here and there on the African coast , an undeveloped claim in Madagascar , the Île de Bourbon , and five unimportant trading posts in India - a total ...
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... land , but the stubborn chancellor rejected them all.® And so strong was the anti - mercantilist sentiment of the Na- tional Liberal party , on which Bismarck then depended , and of the majority of the Reichstag , that even after he was ...
... land , but the stubborn chancellor rejected them all.® And so strong was the anti - mercantilist sentiment of the Na- tional Liberal party , on which Bismarck then depended , and of the majority of the Reichstag , that even after he was ...
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... land's share of the iron industry diminished with startling rapidity until , before the close of the century , United States had won first place and Germany was about to forge ahead of Eng- land into second place . The following table ...
... land's share of the iron industry diminished with startling rapidity until , before the close of the century , United States had won first place and Germany was about to forge ahead of Eng- land into second place . The following table ...
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Page 481 - The best method of giving practical effect to this principle is that the tutelage of such peoples should be entrusted to advanced nations who, by reason of their resources, their experience or their geographical position, can best undertake this responsibility and who are willing to accept it, and that this tutelage should be exercised by them as mandatories on behalf of the League.
Page 482 - Other peoples, especially those of Central Africa, are at such a stage that the Mandatory must be responsible for the administration of the territory under conditions which will guarantee freedom of conscience and religion, subject only to the maintenance of public order and morals, the prohibition of abuses such as the slave trade, the arms traffic and the liquor traffic...
Page 411 - 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 419 - 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 395 - Spain— that would be cowardly and dishonorable; (2) that we could not turn them over to France or Germany— our commercial rivals in the Orient— that would be bad business and discreditable; (3) that we could not leave them to themselves— they were unfit for self-government...
Page 414 - Resolved, That when any harbor or other place in the American Continents is so situated that the occupation thereof, for naval or military purposes, might threaten the communications or the safety of the United States...
Page 454 - 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 477 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the population concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the Government whose title is to be determined.
Page 73 - That there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and, by God's grace, do the very best we could by them, as our fellowmen for whom Christ also died.
Page 413 - 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.