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... SECRET ences there cited . Dubois et Terrier , op . cit . , p . 405 . SOCIETY TARIFES SEHE PRAL NOT HIGH UNTIL AFTER POLICIES HAD ALREADY BEGUN , As long as our policy is one of free trade WHY EUROPE SHOULDERED THE BURDEN 27.
... SECRET ences there cited . Dubois et Terrier , op . cit . , p . 405 . SOCIETY TARIFES SEHE PRAL NOT HIGH UNTIL AFTER POLICIES HAD ALREADY BEGUN , As long as our policy is one of free trade WHY EUROPE SHOULDERED THE BURDEN 27.
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... secret convention with Austria , and a secret Anglo - Turkish treaty pledging Eng- land to defend Asiatic Turkey against Russia and permitting England to occupy and administer the Turkish island of Cyprus , ostensibly to facilitate ...
... secret convention with Austria , and a secret Anglo - Turkish treaty pledging Eng- land to defend Asiatic Turkey against Russia and permitting England to occupy and administer the Turkish island of Cyprus , ostensibly to facilitate ...
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... secret with France and Russia and Germany for the division of spoils in Asia and Africa . Last , there is Joseph Chamberlain , successfully aggressive manufacturer , en- ' Sir Harry H. Johnston . The Story of My Life ( London , 1923 ) ...
... secret with France and Russia and Germany for the division of spoils in Asia and Africa . Last , there is Joseph Chamberlain , successfully aggressive manufacturer , en- ' Sir Harry H. Johnston . The Story of My Life ( London , 1923 ) ...
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... secret connivance from the government ( which could be presented to the Reichstag as faits accomplis . The propaganda had its effect , and the im- perialist activities of England and France at this time gave an additional stimulus to ...
... secret connivance from the government ( which could be presented to the Reichstag as faits accomplis . The propaganda had its effect , and the im- perialist activities of England and France at this time gave an additional stimulus to ...
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... secret pledge of aid in case France should attempt to conquer Tripoli or Morocco . Tripoli , at least , he hoped to gain for Italy . He also enlarged Italy's foothold on the Red Sea coast , obtained another foothold , farther south , in ...
... secret pledge of aid in case France should attempt to conquer Tripoli or Morocco . Tripoli , at least , he hoped to gain for Italy . He also enlarged Italy's foothold on the Red Sea coast , obtained another foothold , farther south , in ...
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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.