 | North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History - 1916 - 398 страници
...Civilization must either advance or retrograde accordingly as its supremacy is extended or curtailed. . . . "Today the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why? It is not simply by reason of its high character as a civilized state, nor because wisdom and... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 476 страници
...inexpedient" ; that the interests "of Europe are irreconcilably diverse from those of America" ; that "to-day the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition" ; that it is "master of the situation." These weighty declarations were further asserted to be at once... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 474 страници
...because it is good for us. No American statesman will ever again inform Europe, as Mr. Olney did, that " The United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition." THE WORLD'S BELIEF IN FORCE The conditions of the world call for modesty, foresight, and preparation... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 478 страници
...The people of the United States have vital interest in the cause of popular self-government. . . . " To-day the United States is practically sovereign...fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines Sover its interposition. Why? It is not because of the eigntyof pure friendship or good will felt for... | |
 | New England Society in the City of New York - 1916 - 492 страници
...the capstone upon the edifice of National policy by directingRichard Olney to notify the world that "today the United States is practically sovereign...this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects upon which it confines its interposition." Here, then, succinctly stated, is the great basic principle... | |
 | 1916 - 216 страници
...Olney's words in 1895, that ' the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and that its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition ', is not calculated to reassure them : the territorial acquisitions of 1898 convince them that the... | |
 | 1917 - 262 страници
...comments, Secretary Olney's famous interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine in the Venezuela affair of 1895: "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." "Away, then, with this benevolent Monroe Doctrine!" exclaims one. "It is very far from a doctrine by... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke - 1917 - 858 страници
...arbitrate the boundary question with Venezuela. Secretary Olney went further by the statement that "lo-day the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition." The delegates of the United States to the Hague Conferences expressly reserved from the operations... | |
 | George Louis Beer - 1917 - 354 страници
...during the Venezuela boundary negotiations, Secretary Olney informed the British Government that " the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition." 32 This elicited from the Marquess of Salisbury the natural reply that the United States was not "... | |
 | 1917 - 538 страници
...ultimate sovereignty over Mexico is lodged in the Washington government. "Today," declared Richard Olney, "the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition." This principle has been recognized in our dealing with Santa Domingo and Hayti, and with some of the... | |
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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. 
