Hands Off MexicoRand School of Social Science, 1920 - 74 páginas "There can be no more important issue than the issue of war with Mexico; for all other issues are tied up with it. The forces of progress will have to gather swift strength, or they will feel the crunch of the Iron Heel." -John Kenneth Turner, Hands Off Mexico In Hands Off Mexico (1918), John Kenneth Turner, who, along with his wife, had long been involved in Mexico's revolutionary movement, sought to plead the Mexican cause during a time when the US government was reevaluating its policies toward Mexico. His pleas for the US to refrain from invading Mexico, played an important role in the drafting of the US Immigration Acts of 1917 and 1924. |
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... dangerous factor therein . For such * January 22 , ( 1920 ) , we were informed that the Mexican Government had offered to grant temporary permits for the resumption of drilling upon oil wells already begun and that the oil corporations ...
... dangerous factor therein . For such * January 22 , ( 1920 ) , we were informed that the Mexican Government had offered to grant temporary permits for the resumption of drilling upon oil wells already begun and that the oil corporations ...
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... danger than ever before , but there is every reason to expect that far more Americans would fall in battle than the total number of Americans now resident in that country . Another answer is that Americans are now reasonably safe in ...
... danger than ever before , but there is every reason to expect that far more Americans would fall in battle than the total number of Americans now resident in that country . Another answer is that Americans are now reasonably safe in ...
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... dangerous places , he must seek other means of pro- tection than an army of his countrymen . He has rights , but no right to call an invading army to his assistance . No right of any American in Mexico can weigh against the right of the ...
... dangerous places , he must seek other means of pro- tection than an army of his countrymen . He has rights , but no right to call an invading army to his assistance . No right of any American in Mexico can weigh against the right of the ...
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... danger of falling under the control of Germany or Japan , which would constitute a menace to our own safety . Cuba is held up as a shining example of how we might set up a “ stable govern- ment " of natives and then unselfishly withdraw ...
... danger of falling under the control of Germany or Japan , which would constitute a menace to our own safety . Cuba is held up as a shining example of how we might set up a “ stable govern- ment " of natives and then unselfishly withdraw ...
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... danger from England is far more nearly real . British capitalists want the same kind of a government in Mexico as American capitalists do , and they are quite willing that we shall undertake the expense of establishing it . One of the ...
... danger from England is far more nearly real . British capitalists want the same kind of a government in Mexico as American capitalists do , and they are quite willing that we shall undertake the expense of establishing it . One of the ...
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agents aggression Altendorf Amer American citizens American press American property American Rights answer April 11 arms army bandit British Canova Carranza confiscated conquest Constitutionalist Cruz decrees Department Diaz dignity and authority disorder Doheny economic embargo ernment favor Felicistas Felix Diaz fight flag forces foreign Germans Haiti hostility Huerta ican international obligations intervention conspiracy intervention propaganda interventionist invasion issue Iturbide J. P. Morgan John Lind killed land Madero ment Mexican Government Mexican oil Mexico City military Monroe Doctrine months National Association neighbor Obregon oil companies oil operators party peace political port Presidency of Mexico President President's principle protect American lives Protection of American punitive expedition RAND BOOK STORE Rand School ranza reason recognize Carranza regime Rights in Mexico Salina Cruz School of Social Socialist sovereignty stable government Tampico taxes threat threatening tion United Vera Cruz Villa Villistas Virginia Bill Wall Street Washington Wilson Administration
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Página 30 - I have outlined. It is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.
Página 29 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy.
Página 31 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world ; that no nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Página 30 - What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in ; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealings by the other peoples of the world, as against force and selfish aggression.
Página 33 - The people of Mexico have not been suffered to own their own country or direct their own institutions. Outsiders, men out of other nations and with interests too often alien to their own, have dictated what their privileges and opportunities should be and who should control their land, their lives, and their resources — some of them Americans, pressing for things they could never have got in their own country.
Página 43 - I ask this of you in support of the foreign policy of the administration. I shall not know how to deal with other matters of even greater delicacy and nearer consequence if you do not grant it to me in ungrudging measure.
Página 42 - I, therefore, come to ask your approval that I should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from General Huerta and his adherents the fullest recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States, even amidst the distressing conditions now unhappily obtaining in Mexico.
Página 30 - The equality of nations upon which peace must be founded if it is to last must be an equality of rights; the guarantees exchanged must neither recognize nor imply a difference between big nations and small, between those that are powerful and those that are weak.
Página 30 - No man, no group of men, chose these to be the issues of the struggle. They are the issues of it; and they must be settled — by no arrangement or compromise or adjustment of interests, but definitely and once for all and with a full and unequivocal acceptance of the principle that the interest of the weakest is as sacred as the interest of the strongest.
Página 49 - July 14, 1890, are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. United States notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt.
Referencias a este libro
El reconocimiento de Alvaro Obregón: opinión americana y propaganda mexicana ... Martha Strauss Neuman Vista de fragmentos - 1983 |
El reconocimiento de Alvaro Obregón: opinión americana y propaganda mexicana ... Martha Strauss Neuman Vista de fragmentos - 1983 |