President Wilson's AddressesH. Holt, 1918 - 311 páginas |
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... ship , serve the people of Mexico , and meet our international obligations , we are more than willing to consider the suggestion . ΙΟ Mr. Lind executed his delicate and difficult mission with singular tact , firmness , and good judgment ...
... ship , serve the people of Mexico , and meet our international obligations , we are more than willing to consider the suggestion . ΙΟ Mr. Lind executed his delicate and difficult mission with singular tact , firmness , and good judgment ...
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... ship needs if it is to be safely handled and brought to port . May I not express the very real pleasure I have ex- perienced in coöperating with this Congress and sharing with it the labors of common service to which it has de- voted ...
... ship needs if it is to be safely handled and brought to port . May I not express the very real pleasure I have ex- perienced in coöperating with this Congress and sharing with it the labors of common service to which it has de- voted ...
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... ship , and while engaged in loading the boat was arrested by an officer and squad of men of the army of General Huerta . 10 Neither the paymaster nor anyone of the boat's crew was armed . Two of the men were in the boat when the arrest ...
... ship , and while engaged in loading the boat was arrested by an officer and squad of men of the army of General Huerta . 10 Neither the paymaster nor anyone of the boat's crew was armed . Two of the men were in the boat when the arrest ...
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... ship's mail , and was for a time thrown into jail . An official dispatch from this Govern- ment to its embassy at Mexico City was withheld by the authorities of the telegraphic service until peremptorily 30 demanded by our chargé d ...
... ship's mail , and was for a time thrown into jail . An official dispatch from this Govern- ment to its embassy at Mexico City was withheld by the authorities of the telegraphic service until peremptorily 30 demanded by our chargé d ...
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... ships ? The treaty under 30 which we gave up that right may have been a mistaken treaty , but there was no mistake about its meaning . When I have made a promise as a man I try to keep it , and I know of no other rule permissible to a ...
... ships ? The treaty under 30 which we gave up that right may have been a mistaken treaty , but there was no mistake about its meaning . When I have made a promise as a man I try to keep it , and I know of no other rule permissible to a ...
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Página 296 - All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all. 9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.
Página 241 - A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
Página 297 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Página 246 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
Página 238 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Página 245 - It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful people into war...
Página 244 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
Página 296 - ... an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished...
Página 295 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that...
Página 146 - The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.