The United States and Foreign PowersThe author presents a narrative of the major diplomatic incidents in the history of the United States from its beginning to 1892. |
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... recognize the President as a sovereign , we have no embassadors in our diplomatic service , but the envoy extraordinary and minis- ter plenipotentiary is the highest grade , and the laws of the United States authorize the appointment of ...
... recognize the President as a sovereign , we have no embassadors in our diplomatic service , but the envoy extraordinary and minis- ter plenipotentiary is the highest grade , and the laws of the United States authorize the appointment of ...
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... recognized the world over as the language of di- plomacy , but in the United States no special qualifications are required . In other countries also the diplomatic service is recognized as a profession , which is entered after special ...
... recognized the world over as the language of di- plomacy , but in the United States no special qualifications are required . In other countries also the diplomatic service is recognized as a profession , which is entered after special ...
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... recognized as a privilege of the President to select his personal friends for the diplomatic service , as a diplomatic office is in no sense a political one , and like the members of his cabinet should be in sympathy with the policy he ...
... recognized as a privilege of the President to select his personal friends for the diplomatic service , as a diplomatic office is in no sense a political one , and like the members of his cabinet should be in sympathy with the policy he ...
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... recognized by the regulations . The ceremonies of presentation having been completed , the minister , with his escort ; makes a bow , and retires backward to the center of the room , bows again and continues to retire until the exit is ...
... recognized by the regulations . The ceremonies of presentation having been completed , the minister , with his escort ; makes a bow , and retires backward to the center of the room , bows again and continues to retire until the exit is ...
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... recognized as the representative of a powerful and wealthy nation and is expected to maintain a corresponding style of living . In the absence of great questions there is a multitude of routine duties to keep a minister busy , and he is ...
... recognized as the representative of a powerful and wealthy nation and is expected to maintain a corresponding style of living . In the absence of great questions there is a multitude of routine duties to keep a minister busy , and he is ...
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Page 81 - ... erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify or colonize, or assume, or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Page 78 - 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 98 - Pacific shores, and virtually a part of the coast line of the United States. Our merely commercial interest in it is greater than that of all other countries, while its relations to our power and prosperity as a nation, to our means of defense, our unity, peace, and safety, are matters of paramount concern to the people of the United States. No other great power would under similar circumstances fail to assert a rightful control over a work so closely and vitally affecting its interest and welfare.
Page 148 - And the United States hereby renounce forever any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof to take, dry, or cure fish on or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbors of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 82 - ... any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the interoceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
Page 52 - The United States have not certainly the right, and ought never to feel the inclination, to dictate to others who may differ with them upon this subject; nor do the committee see the expediency of insulting other states with whom we are maintaining relations of perfect amity by ascending the moral chair and proclaiming from thence mere abstract principles, of the rectitude of which each nation enjoys the perfect right of deciding for itself.
Page 81 - Britain take advantage of any intimacy, or use any alliance, connection, or influence that either may possess with any State or Government through whose territory the said Canal may pass, for the purpose of acquiring or holding, directly or indirectly, for the...
Page 98 - and duty of the United States to assert and maintain such supervision and authority over any interoceanic canal across the isthmus that connects North and South America as will protect our national interests.
Page 104 - I believed that I would be derelict in my duty if I did not take...
Page 81 - America ; nor will either make use of any protection which either affords or may afford, or any alliance which either has or may have to or with any state or people, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...