The Intimate Papers of Colonel House Arranged as a Narrative by Charles Seymour, Volumen2Houghton Mifflin, 1926 |
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accept Affectionately yours E. M. agreed Allies Ambassador Gerard American armed merchantmen asked Austria Balfour Belgium believe belligerents Berlin Bernstorff blockade Britain Bryce Cabinet cable called campaign Chancellor Congress coöperation crisis criticism DEAR COLONEL HOUSE demand Democratic diplomatic discussed E. M. HOUSE England Europe favor February February 15 feeling Foreign Office France French German Government Germany Germany's give hope House MY DEAR House's Hughes insisted interests Jagow January Lansing letter Lloyd George London Lord Lord Bryce Lusitania matter mediation ment military mind nations neutral political Polk position President DEAR GOVERNOR President Wilson President's proposal question refused regard reply Republican Russia seemed Senate sent ships sincerely sinking Sir Cecil Spring-Rice Sir Edward Grey Sir Horace Plunkett situation speech Spring-Rice submarine warfare suggestion talk tell things thought tion Tirpitz to-day told United victory vote warning Washington wish wrote House York
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Página 298 - Second, an universal association of the nations to maintain the inviolate security of the highway of the seas for the common and unhindered use of all the nations of the world, and to prevent any war begun either contrary to treaty covenants or without warning and full submission of the causes to the opinion of the world, a virtual guarantee of territorial integrity and political independence.
Página 238 - Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight-carrying vessels, the Government of the United States can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether.
Página 295 - We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world. The interests of all nations are our own also. We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind is inevitably our affair as well as the affair of the nations of Europe and of Asia.
Página 37 - Liners will not be sunk by our submarines without warning and without safety of the lives of noncombatants, provided that the liners do not try to escape or offer resistance.
Página 469 - There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making — we will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated.
Página 241 - Should the steps taken by the Government of the United States not attain the object it desires to have the laws of humanity followed by all belligerent nations, the German Government would then be facing a new situation, in which it must reserve itself complete liberty of decision.
Página 2 - The Government of the United States is contending for something much greater than mere rights of property or privileges of commerce. It is contending for nothing less high and sacred than the rights of humanity...
Página 84 - he said he had never been sure that we ought not to take part in the conflict and, if it seemed evident that Germany and her militaristic ideas were to win, the obligation upon us was greater than ever.
Página 338 - Only when the great nations of the world have reached some sort of agreement as to what they hold to be fundamental to their common interest, and as to some feasible method of acting in concert when any nation or group of nations seeks to disturb those fundamental things...
Página 455 - It would be foolish to deny that the situation is fraught with the gravest possibilities and dangers. No thoughtful man can fail to see that the necessity for definite action may come at any time, if we are in fact, and not in word merely, to defend our elementary rights as a neutral nation.