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... action proposed . There is no hazard or speculation in the enter- prise . It is from first to last a mere question of moral right and political exigency , as apprehended by the more powerful State . Very similar is the case of warlike ...
... action proposed . There is no hazard or speculation in the enter- prise . It is from first to last a mere question of moral right and political exigency , as apprehended by the more powerful State . Very similar is the case of warlike ...
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... action , in a variety of unconscious principles . ways . It is not merely professed , but widely be- lieved , that each State profits by the wealth , and not by the pov- erty , of surrounding States ; that each State , from its climate ...
... action , in a variety of unconscious principles . ways . It is not merely professed , but widely be- lieved , that each State profits by the wealth , and not by the pov- erty , of surrounding States ; that each State , from its climate ...
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... action did much , as it always does , to give dignity , and even lustre , to barbarities exercised on defenceless towns - people , erring on the side of pa- triotism , or making honest mistakes as to their technical duties in respect of ...
... action did much , as it always does , to give dignity , and even lustre , to barbarities exercised on defenceless towns - people , erring on the side of pa- triotism , or making honest mistakes as to their technical duties in respect of ...
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... action of the responsible advisers of the Crown . They are always , after all , through a process of ' natural selection , ' the ablest men of the party to which they be- long . Except under very rare conditions , they are more disposed ...
... action of the responsible advisers of the Crown . They are always , after all , through a process of ' natural selection , ' the ablest men of the party to which they be- long . Except under very rare conditions , they are more disposed ...
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... action . There are certain forces of attraction or repulsion which favor alliances , or easily engender hostile feeling , between different pairs of European States - which are at once the con- sequence of a long career of persistent ...
... action . There are certain forces of attraction or repulsion which favor alliances , or easily engender hostile feeling , between different pairs of European States - which are at once the con- sequence of a long career of persistent ...
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Page 147 - V. The contracting parties further engage, that when the said canal shall have been completed, they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal may forever be open and free, and the capital invested therein secure.
Page 219 - ... any projectile of a weight below 400 grammes, which is either explosive or charged with fulminating or inflammable substances.
Page 147 - ... with reference to any means of communication by Ship-Canal which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the way of the river San Juan de Nicaragua, and either or both of the lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific ocean; the President of the United States has conferred full powers on John M.
Page 146 - The Black Sea is neutralized ; its waters and its ports, thrown open to the mercantile marine of every nation, are formally and in perpetuity interdicted to the flag of war, either of the Powers possessing its coasts or of any other Power, with the exceptions mentioned in Articles 14 and 19 of the present treaty.