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... protection met with discouraging rebuffs , and only after much hesitation did Lord Stanley , then secretary of state for the colonies , con- sent to annexation of Natal in 1843 , In the case of New Zealand likewise , Downing Street ...
... protection met with discouraging rebuffs , and only after much hesitation did Lord Stanley , then secretary of state for the colonies , con- sent to annexation of Natal in 1843 , In the case of New Zealand likewise , Downing Street ...
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... protected by the Monroe Doctrine against European annexation , was subjected to economic imperialism , almost as if it were a colony . And as the demand for rubber grew still more insatiable , vast rubber plan- RUBBER FROM COLONY IN ...
... protected by the Monroe Doctrine against European annexation , was subjected to economic imperialism , almost as if it were a colony . And as the demand for rubber grew still more insatiable , vast rubber plan- RUBBER FROM COLONY IN ...
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... protection of their own imperial flag . Or in another case , one European govern- ment believed that only annexation of coconut - bearing islands would secure the output to its own citizens . In short , the northern world's desire for ...
... protection of their own imperial flag . Or in another case , one European govern- ment believed that only annexation of coconut - bearing islands would secure the output to its own citizens . In short , the northern world's desire for ...
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... protect investments of their surplus capital , obtain business and coaling stations for their shipping , and secure raw materials . Such is the logic which combined with economic facts makes imperialism a necessity . More humanly ...
... protect investments of their surplus capital , obtain business and coaling stations for their shipping , and secure raw materials . Such is the logic which combined with economic facts makes imperialism a necessity . More humanly ...
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... protection and aid for French invest- ments in the colonies ; still , his main point was that France enjoyed at least 200 million francs of trade with her possessions , more than enough to compensate for the deficits in colonial bud ...
... protection and aid for French invest- ments in the colonies ; still , his main point was that France enjoyed at least 200 million francs of trade with her possessions , more than enough to compensate for the deficits in colonial bud ...
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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.