Anglo-American Boundary Question: As Stated by Great Britain, Venezuela, and the United States, in Their Official Despatches ...Forster, Groom & Company, 1896 - 58 páginas |
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accepted admit Amacuro American Continent American Public Law arbitration assert Bayard Berbice boundary claimed boundary dispute Britain and Venezuela British claim British colony British Government British Guiana ceded coast concern concessions considered contention controversy Cuyuni Cuyuni River Demerara despatch diplomatic relations disputed territory Dutch Dutch Claim England Essequibo River established Europe European Power existing fact February foreign French friendly Government of Venezuela Guacipati hemisphere interests international law jurisdiction London Lord Aberdeen Lord Rosebery Lord Salisbury Majesty's Government matter ment Message Mississippi Monroe Doctrine Moroco mouth nation negotiations offices official boundary map Olney Olney's Orinoco parties Point Barima political portion possession President Monroe pretensions principle proposed regard reply Republic of Venezuela rule Schomburgk line Secretary Senor Guzman Blanco Senor Rojaz settlement South America South American Spain Spaniards Spanish submit territory claimed tion treaty Treaty of Munster Venezuela's Claim Venezuelan Government Venezuelan Minister Venezuelan territory Yuruari
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Página 23 - 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.
Página 16 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence, she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Página 31 - Monroe are generally inapplicable " to the state of things in which we live at the present day," and especially inapplicable to a controversy involving the boundary line between Great Britain and Venezuela.
Página 17 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are, of necessity, more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments.
Página 17 - And to the defense of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted. We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare, that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace...
Página 29 - They call for a definite decision upon the point whether Great Britain will consent or will decline to submit the Venezuelan boundary question in its entirety to impartial arbitration.
Página 17 - In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part nor does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparations for our defense.
Página 34 - ... not since been accepted by the Government of any other country. The United States have a right, like any other nation, to interpose in any controversy by which their own interests are affected; and they are the judge whether those interests are touched, and in what measure they should be sustained. But their rights are in no way strengthened or extended by the fact that the controversy affects some territory which is called American.
Página 18 - European powers. To this spirit and this purpose, also, are to be attributed the passages of the same message which treat any infringement of the rule against interference in American affairs on the part of the powers of Europe as an act of unfriendliness to the United States. It was realized that it was futile to lay down such a rule unless its observance could be enforced. It was manifest that the United States was the only power in this hemisphere capable of enforcing it.
Página 18 - That America is in no part open to colonization, though the proposition was not universally admitted at the time of its first enunciation, has long been universally conceded. We are now concerned, therefore, only with that other practical application of the Monroe doctrine the disregard of which by an European Power is to be deemed an act of unfriendliness towards the United States.