 | William W. Rasor - 1918 - 436 strani
...declaration of. Mr. Olney, Secretary of State during President Cleveland's Administration in 1895, that: "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." "Those Americans who understand their southern neighbors best," says Mr. Sweet, "feel strongly that... | |
 | Max Farrand - 1918 - 382 strani
...politically, of the United States." l Nor was the strain of the situation relieved by his further statement that "To-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." In 1898 the United States went .flf to war with Spain over conditions with * Spain in *-uba for reasons... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1918 - 186 strani
...British Guiana. And speaking in behalf of Cleveland in 1895, Richard Olney, Secretary of State, said: The United States is practically sovereign on this...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Extensions of the original Doctrine have confused the popular idea as to its purpose.1 It has been... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - 1918 - 508 strani
..." political control to be lost by one party and gained by the other." "To-day," declared Mr. Olney, "the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition." All the advantages of this superiority were, he affirmed, at once imperilled if the principle should... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1919 - 246 strani
...retorts. The American Secretary, not clouding his assertions by clever circumlocution, openly proclaimed that "Today the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why? It is not because of the pure friendship or good will felt for it. It is not simply by reason... | |
 | William Warren Sweet - 1919 - 344 strani
...union between a European and an American state" is unnatural and inexpedient, and further on announced that "to-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." These declarations were astonishing both to Great Britain and the South American states, and were at... | |
 | Harold Rozelle Bruce - 1919 - 148 strani
...and power of self-government and of shaping for itself its own political fortunes and destinies* .... "To-day the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its Interposition. Why? .... It is because, in addition to all other grounds, its infinite resources combined with its... | |
 | 1919 - 356 strani
...Entirely ignoring the sensitive pride of the Spanish Americans and thinking only of Europe, he continued: "Today the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. " The President himself did not run into any such uncalled-for extravagance of expression, but his... | |
 | William Howard Taft, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Henry Waters Taft - 1919 - 208 strani
...made. And, although, on the one hand, Secretary Olney in 1895, in the Venezuelan controversy, said: "To-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition"; on the other hand, President Roosevelt in 1901 said that the Monroe Doctrine did not prevent foreign... | |
 | John V. Denson - 1997 - 494 strani
...administration Secretary of State Richard Olney gave the Monroe Doctrine a new emphasis when he said, "Today, the United States is practically sovereign...is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition."4 But the New Manifest Destiny was broader and more ambitious than renewed pursuit of... | |
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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. 
