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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... duties of this office as secretary ad interim . On the organization of the new Congress in the following November , Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania was elected to be its president , and he acted in this capacity until December , 1784 ...
... duties of this office as secretary ad interim . On the organization of the new Congress in the following November , Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania was elected to be its president , and he acted in this capacity until December , 1784 ...
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... duties of the office o March 21 , 1790 , after his return from France , where he was ou first minister plenipotentiary . Since the time of Jefferso there have been twenty - eight secretaries of state , not in cluding undersecretaries of ...
... duties of the office o March 21 , 1790 , after his return from France , where he was ou first minister plenipotentiary . Since the time of Jefferso there have been twenty - eight secretaries of state , not in cluding undersecretaries of ...
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... duties . From this practice the present meaning of the title was derived , and it was first used in its present sense by Count Vergennes in French , and Burke in English . Every independent nation has the right to send or receive agents ...
... duties . From this practice the present meaning of the title was derived , and it was first used in its present sense by Count Vergennes in French , and Burke in English . Every independent nation has the right to send or receive agents ...
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... duties , functions , and privileges . During the absence of a minister the senior secre- tary of legation acts as chargé d'affaires , is entitled to the privileges and dignities of his principal , and under our laws is entitled to an ...
... duties , functions , and privileges . During the absence of a minister the senior secre- tary of legation acts as chargé d'affaires , is entitled to the privileges and dignities of his principal , and under our laws is entitled to an ...
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... duties are usually performed in Washington by the chief clerk of the Department of State , and the new ministers obtain information as to official and social usage from the dean of the diplomatic corps . The day and hour for the ...
... duties are usually performed in Washington by the chief clerk of the Department of State , and the new ministers obtain information as to official and social usage from the dean of the diplomatic corps . The day and hour for the ...
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Page 263 - The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects, respectively, from the one country to the other, for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.
Page 98 - ... traffic thereupon than the aforesaid Governments shall approve of as just and equitable; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms, shall also be open on like terms to the citizens and subjects of every other State which is willing to grant thereto such protection as the United States and Great Britain engage to afford.
Page 97 - ... 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 165 - ... and also upon the Magdalen Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish : provided that, in so doing, they do not interfere with the rights of private property, or with British fishermen...
Page 94 - 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 - ... to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to 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 114 - 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 164 - 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 103 - Mexico; and that they therefore think fit to declare that it does not accord with the policy of the United States to acknowledge any monarchical government, erected on the ruins of any republican government in America, under the auspices of any European power.
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.